I Stood Up For My Rights…Will You Stand Up For Yours?
There are very few areas where I invest more time than in healthcare. There is currently a PETITION at the White House that is opposed to MANDATORY vaccinations for anyone. I want you to click on the PETITION link and sign in it, and check the email address you use to confirm your signature once the White House sends you a confirmation email. I’m not saying that I am anti vaccinations, but I am opposed to someone else stripping me of my RIGHTS. After watching the parents of a 17 year old girl in Connecticut be threatened with prison, and the forced removal of their children for neglect because the parents were honoring their daughter’s wishes of not following a doctors recommendation of chemotherapy I have finally come to the conclusion that the medical industry has become as dangerous as the Military Industrial Complex.
Children are regularly seen as competent and tried as adults for capital crimes in this country, but when a girl who is older than some of those defendants makes a rational and logical decision of not having “their poison” pumped into HER body she is treated as an irrational incompetent child who couldn’t make a decision for herself. The government and the medical industry are trying to rob this young lady, who is referred to as Cassandra C by the press, of her rights, and mandatory vaccination robs all of us of us of our RIGHT TO CHOOSE.
If the Medical Industrial Complex was truly looking at the best interest of the patients and overall healthcare I wouldn’t have a problem with vaccinations, but in my 15 years in the system I can wholeheartedly say, “They aren’t looking out for our interests!” Medicine has become big business, and even though individuals in the system may want to help people the system itself is a profit center that is only concerned with making money, even if it’s at the expense of our Rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Money is the reason why we haven’t found cures to diseases like Cancer (I won’t even get into the lack of transparency and integrity of the pharmaceutical industry). It is more profitable to only validate three procedures (Chemotherapy, Radiation, and Surgery) that are controlled by the Medical Industrial Complex than it is to consider looking at other options. Things like proper nutrition and the body’s imbalances that cause conditions like cancer that can be corrected cheaply outside of the medical community are not promoted and in some instances campaigns are instituted to discredit alternative treatments and the people who recommend them.
My original surgeon told me that I needed to have surgery, but what he failed to mention were the side effects. I was ignorant at the time and I did what I was told. What resulted was the worst disaster of my life. Now I’m confronted by a similar situation, but this time there is the subtle threat of extortion. You see on April 8th I’m lucky enough to be seeing the best surgeon in the world for the surgery I “need” to have performed. Unfortunately no one has truly explained the surgery to me. When I bring up the fact that I’m undergoing an alternative treatment and want a CAT-Scan to see if there is any shrinkage in the tumor prior to surgery so that I can make an informed decision my family reminds me that if I don’t follow through there is the high probability that I will never have another opportunity to see this doctor if I need surgery in the future, and they’re right.
The Medical Industrial Complex at it’s finest! You must succumb to us or else. Where in that thought process do you see an interest in the patient’s well being or healthcare in general. If my well being and health are truly the focus when I make the request the surgeon should say, “Absolutely lets run the scan and see what things look like.” If there is any visible shrinkage in the tumor the surgeon should say, “At this time we should hold off on surgery and see where this alternate treatment takes you.” But I’m not holding my breath. I fully expect to be confronted by the choice of succumb or else.
The direction things are going in healthcare reminds me of a poem by Martin Niemöller someone once shared with me. This was translated from German so there are several variations, but this is one of the most common English variations:
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn’t a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
There are people that are actively speaking out for you even if you don’t know it or know them for that matter. They will continue to speak out for you not because they know you or care for you, but because their rights are your rights. No one is asking you to be a torch bearer, but I am asking you to support the people who are fighting for you by signing this petition and asking the people you care about to follow suit.
If history has taught me only one thing it is that history is cyclical, and it does in fact repeat itself; speak out now.
Casandra C.: http://fox13now.com/2015/01/07/teen-forced-into-chemo-treatments-mother-supports-decision-to-refuse/
Alternative Treatment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu_wZV7w-g8
