I was witness to a TV program last evening on the rising crisis in Peru with multi drug resistant strains of the tuberculosis. This is another example of the "super bugs" that we are increasingly being threatened by in North America and Europe. During the program a number of pharmaceutical representatives as well as physicians were raising fears that these super bugs could get out of control if legislation is not relaxed to allow drug companies to produce more cost effective alternative antibiotics for treating these new strains. I need to say, that as a physician, who was taught to prescribe antibiotics during my medical training in the 1980's I was acutely cognizant of the risks that over prescribing such agents could pose. Specifically, for those who don't already know, the risk of creating and nurturing the proliferation of drug resistant strains of bacteria. Sure enough, now 20 years later we are seeing exactly what I and others recognized could happen, a crisis of global proportions that is threatening to envelop the entire globe. Although I find it unconscionable to see these drug company representatives and their physician supporters promoting the same solution (i.e. more and newer antibiotics) that caused the problem in the first place there is a more serious problem here There is deeper level to which we can take this matter and one which may help release the global population from the scourge of having to become guinea pigs for another mass antibiotic experiment. Let me explain. It is interesting how many choose to accept the faulty logic presented above by drug companies who employ the "fear of death" card to manipulate individuals into taking such toxic agents into their bodies (and please don't take my word for it just look at the thickness of any physicians drug desk reference; over 90% of it listing potential drug side-effects) after contracting a bacterial infection. The fear of dying, in my view, is the very thing that is the foundation of the problem that created the super bug issue. It is this fear of death that leads many to lose their sense of judgment and ultimately winds up killing them. Interesting, isn't it, that the "fear of death" does just what some "think" it is supposed to protect them from? This is because the "fear of death", if you notice what it feels like to be consumed by it, it leaves one feeling terrified, paralyzed, confused, indecisive, drained of energy, weak willed, helpless and ultimately vulnerable to being maimed. In other words it sets one up "for" dying! Here I am reminded of a nurse working in my city in Canada during the SARS crisis. After she contracted and eventually became the first to succumb to the illness it was recounted how frightened she was before hand that she might have such a fate. In other words it has the potential to become a self fulfilling prophesy/fact. But, as I said, you probably thought the converse, didn't you? Well then, which is the truth? Does it protect or does it harm? I will leave this for you to ponder. I will suggest that it is possible to find another way out of this problem and if you wish to entertain it you are free to contact me at the web link below for an introductory consultation. |
