Chapter Nine
Life Flow One
The Solution For Heart Diseaseby
Karl LorenIt shouldn’t be necessary for me to write about the fraud of bypass surgery. That fraud, as a subject for authors, is now so popular that you can find dozens of books about it.
I’ve provided a good bibliography of books you can refer to in the back of this Book. [Karl Note in March, 2001: I've added many pages on this subject since writing this Book in 1994. Here are some of those:
The article summarizing the fraud of bypass surgery -- published in the monthly free electronic newsletter called The Wednesday Letter, version of May 2000.
The Deliberate Drugging Of America, The Wednesday Letter of March 2001 and also published with more details by clicking here.
Doctors Lie For Money -- Expose of the American Heart Association -- falsely claiming that their recommended treatments for heart disease have been lowering the death rate from heart disease when the exact opposite is the truth.]
Let me just give you some flat statements which can easily be proven to
be true.
1. Bypass surgery is the most popular surgical procedure in the United States -- measured by the amount of money charged.
2. It is not unusual for heart bypass surgery to cost $25,000, or even $75,000. They often come "undone" within months or a few years. They are often repeated on the same patient.
3. There has never been any scientific proof of the effectiveness of bypass surgery in the quantity of patients receiving it.
4. What tests have been done show that there is no improvement in longevity when a patient gets bypass surgery. In fact, the President of the American Heart Association says: "Up to half of all coronary artery bypass surgeries fail. In these surgeries, portions of veins are surgically inserted to bypass clogged blood vessels to the heart." Click Here to see that source.
5. Doctors and hospitals, many of them, depend on the money earned from
bypass surgery to support their standard of living. Many hospitals, in particular, count
on the regular bypass surgery procedures to bring in enough money so they can afford to
continue providing much less fancy medical care to the poor who flock to their doors.
This subject of heart doctors going for the money does not go away. Click
Here for an article in the Wall Street Journal in June 1999 about this.
6. The death rate from bypass surgery has varied tremendously, from doctor to doctor, with a very concerted effort to keep secret those death rates. When they were finally revealed, there were some doctors whose death rate was less than 1% while certain other doctors killed as many as 15% of the patients they put a knife to. The medical establishment, particularly the hospitals, keep this information as confidential as they can. Click Here to read 1999 data on this point.
7. Heart bypass surgeons are mentally sick people. They know they are delivering a fraudulent treatment; taking money for performing a harmful procedure which they lie about and claim is helpful.
8. If your doctor would recommend ANY patient for bypass surgery, without a second opinion, you can tell him from me that I consider him a psychotic criminal who belongs in jail.
9. Fortunately, the lid is coming off. The pot is boiling and these truths will be more and more exposed to the American public.
10. The problem is not just that this one multi-billion dollar medical scam has been exposed. The real problem is that there is an entire system, a medical industrial complex, which has no interest in your health, but does have a very intense interest in getting money at your expense.
11. The single most accurate way of predicting what type of treatment you will get, if you have heart disease, is your zip cod! This amazing data is well known to surgeons, but carefully hidden from patients. Click here for the study on that subject.
You can use this information to guide your own, personal health care decisions, but that would be a waste of your talents.
What you can and should do is start making a fuss about this.
Go to your city counsel and get a law passed making it illegal to perform bypass surgery in your city. That would get some attention.
Get your county supervisors to pass a law requiring every bypass surgeon to register, the way a child molester does if he lives in the county.
Don’t expect any help from Congress or state governments. You can do something in your own town. Once you get the mayor to proclaim a week free of fraudulent heart treatment, go for two weeks in the next year. In a few years you can have your town free of heart fraud.
If you don’t do it, who will?
[Karl Note: In March 2001 the stunning news came out that bypass surgery causes a reduction in mental ability, by at least 20% in more than half of those receiving this barbaric procedure. Click here to review that data -- added long after this Chapter was first written.]
There has been a medical myth believed by millions of Americans, over many years -- that heart surgery, or bypass surgery, was an effective technique for handling heart disease.
It isn’t!
The fact is that it has never been. The truth about this lie has been known ever since the beginning. But that truth was seen by only a few people twenty years ago. It is now such common medical knowledge that most doctors know about it and only the man-in-the-street hasn’t heard about it yet.
The sordid tales of heart bypass surgery were just as true twenty years ago, but the master planners had their reasons, then, for not allowing the sins to be revealed. You see that twenty years ago the drug support system was not yet in place. These master planners had to get a "solution" to the number one killer in America, and they knew that the solution would have to be some drug that people would take for the rest of their lives. They also knew they would have to build up the "research" basis and public opinion support for the drug solution.
In the meantime, bypass surgery seemed like the solution. It was expensive enough that obviously not everyone could get it. BUT, if the master planners could get the bill for bypass up to $60 billion per year, then allow the exposure of bypass as a fraud, then all that $60 billion would be shunted over, gradually, to the drug companies, without even an increase in the cost of total medical care.
Way back in 1985 I was lecturing about the evils of bypass and the wonders of vitamin chelation treatment. Here’s a letter written in 1985 from Roy Biensch, of Canada:
Dear Karl,
As we have talked on the telephone many times before, I have decided to sit down and write you a letter of appreciation for the concern you have for people.
I also share this same concern and compassion for people. There are so many people leaving this earth too soon and quickly, without getting hooked up with Jesus and going on into eternal life with him.
They are victims of this world’s circumstances, dying of things like heart disease and cancer. I am sure that your vitamin tablets are the answer to reversing these problems.
I really got interested in your formula when my brother, John, was scheduled for bypass surgery. One of the arteries leading from his heart was 95% closed off. I saw your advertisement in a paper boldly stating that "There is a cure for heart disease."
So, as you remember, I telephoned you in June and you got the product to me in just a few days. We listened to your tape on the Summary of Oral Chelation and butter versus Margarine.
My wife and two of my brothers and their wives are listening also. We have all been believers in good health, but some of us had abused our bodies more than others in what we ate.
We all decided to go on the oral chelation program with XX. Each one of us has good news to report.
I have better circulation in my body especially in my extremities. About three months ago hands and fingers would tingle but now they are a lot warmer. My wife has always had a problem with constipation and that has all been straightened up now.
John, the only one with nearly closed artery, scheduled for bypass, is feeling better than he has for years and is just waiting to go and have another angiogram test. His wife was having noises in her head at night just like a waterfall, and couldn’t sleep at times. This has just about totally left her.
[A later report told me that Roy’s brother, John, no longer needed the bypass surgery!]
So, Karl, this is good news. I see a dying world out there with all these free radicals flying around, especially in the food we eat that has been tampered with to give it longer shelf life. My goal in life is to help people spiritually, and physically. I appreciate your attitude towards your fellowman and what you are doing to help them.
God Bless,
Roy Biensch.
[Karl Note: Roy Biensch continues to use Life Glow Plus, and spreads it around among his friends and neighbors in Canada. Literally thousands of bottles of Life Glow Plus, the oral chelation product, have been used to save lives because of Roy. Note added in March 2001.]
You see, it is far cheaper to keep a patient so drugged that he hardly ever takes a walk, or lifts a finger -- thus reducing the chance of death from heart attack -- far cheaper to use a drug on a patient for the rest of his life than it is to give him two or three bypass surgeries. Health Insurance now often pays for bypass, and by switching patients from a $50,000 single surgery, to 25 years of drugs, at $1,800 per year, the health bureaucrats can claim that they are saving money. Mevacor costs about $1,800 per year!
Now you find bypass surgeons making confessions!
Even more fascinating, you find the standard media starting to report the truth when they ignored it twenty years ago.
And there are still die-hard bypass surgeons who are trying to prolong their life by "inventing" new ways to do bypass surgery. Click here to read a Wall Street Journal article about a new, but failed, method of doing bypass surgery -- called "keyhole surgery."
When you see a story about the fraud of heart bypass surgery appearing in USA Today, you know that the Master Planners are ready to sink the whole bypass surgery ship and replace it with the drug ship.
It is happening.
Bypass surgery, angioplasty and cardiac catherization do little to enhance survival in many elderly heart attack victims, a major study shows.
"These invasive procedures could be eliminated with no effect on mortality in at least 25%$ of cases," says Dr. Mark McClellan of Harvard Medical School, who led the study of Medicare records of more than 200,000 heart-attack patients 65 and older.
The study is the largest to compare the expensive procedures and mortality.
Cardiac catherizations are done to assess heart disease, angioplasty and bypasses are intended to restore blood flow to the heart.
McClellan says the study in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association, is key to the health-care debate.
- From 1987 to 1990, the number of cardiac catherizations jumped 40%, angioplasties doubled and bypass surgery rose nearly 40%.
- Death rates were not influenced.
- Survival improved with aggressive care at the onset of symptoms, such as quick hospitalization, use of clot-busting drugs and close monitoring.
The study compared heart-attack death rates between rural and big hospitals.
Patients at big hospitals fared better, but only in the first 24 hours before an invasive procedure.
One of these fraudulent doctors even made a public confession of his disgust with bypass. Dr. Robert D. Willix is a surgeon who has performed more than 2,000 bypass surgery procedures. That puts him in the top ranks of heart specialists.
In his book he writes:
I performed about 2,000 coronary bypass operations before I finally figured out I wasn’t helping people. I haven’t picked up a scalpel since 1981, but I’ve saved more patients than I did as a surgeon.
Every time one of those other doctors, still doing bypass, receives $20,000 for his part in the fraudulent operation, he knows he is stealing from the patient and has even less chance of avoiding Hell! What sins these people commit!
Here is another of these people. When I write that they are mentally and spiritually sick, you would probably think me guilty of a dramatization, an exaggeration. How about Dr. Donald Carrow:
He once was the chief architect of a program that coerced angina patients into giving their consent for heart bypass operations. Now, this doctor goes public with his revealing story of the trickery and deceit behind the over-selling of heart bypass operations.
His unconventional approach to practicing medicine is well known in the Tampa, Florida area, as well as nationally. He is Donald Carrow, M.D., former chief of anesthesiology for a large Florida hospital. In a candid interview below, Dr. Carrow tells all.
The turning point for Dr. Carrow came with his own personal health crisis. "Two things happened to me. I was a 42-year old physician working in a major hospital in Tampa, Florida. I was a professor of anesthesia. I created the concept of the heart team. This team was comprised of nurses, ministers, radiologists, laboratory technicians, family physicians, and even patients who had previously undergone open heart bypass surgery. We developed a uniquely contrived method of talking patients into heart bypass surgery that, now looking back on it, they didn’t need."
"Other hospitals would send people to learn how we ‘sold’ heart bypass surgery. Since hospitals had to spend $1.5 to $2 million dollars in equipment before they could perform their first heart bypass operation, they were obviously eager to recoup their investment. This meant a steady stream of patients was required to pay the debt service to the bank," emphasizes Dr. Carrow.
"When a patient would come to the hospital with chest pain they would be stabilized with pain relieving medications and then would undergo a myriad of tests, including a heart angiogram. Nurses were then instructed to tell the patient that there was some bad news concerning their tests and that the doctor would have to speak with them about it. The family physician would then visit the patient and indicate the cardiologist would be needed for a consultation. By the time the cardiologist was at the patient’s bedside he or she would usually be in a state of fright. The cardiologist would then point to an area on the angiogram and tell the patient they were a ‘walking time bomb’."
"If the patient still couldn’t make a decision to undergo open heart surgery I would go out and visit with his or her spouse," says Dr. Carrow, "and point to the same spot on the angiogram and say this problem is what we call a widow maker." The spouse would then run to their loved one and plead with them to consent to the operation.
"If all of this didn’t work, then we would apply the icing on the cake. This consisted of sending a patient who had undergone successful heart bypass surgery to visit the prospective surgical candidate and tell them how successful the operation was." It wasn’t easy to find a patient who had a successful operation, notes Dr. Carrow.
"The heart surgeon would then come in and say how easy the surgery was to perform. All members of the heart team were trained to circumvent the question: how effective is the outcome of the surgery? We would answer that question by saying that years ago there was only a six percent chance of success. Today there was a 96 percent chance. Every patient would interpret this as a cure. The nurses were told to tell the patient they would be holding their hand through the whole procedure. Then the pastor would come in and say a few words. It was well orchestrated."
"We call all of this patient education. It was really patient coercion. I was involved in over 2000 open heart procedures. Only about 200 were necessary. We had a 90% failure rate," says Dr. Carrow. These numbers were recently confirmed by a landmark Harvard study.
"Then, at age 42, my own chest pain occurred. Crushing chest pain. I couldn’t say a full sentence, I couldn’t find the strength to walk out of a chair. My colleagues said it was my time to get on the operating table. I had no intention of having the operation. Something inside me balked at having the same operation that I talked others into on a daily basis." Heart bypass surgery consists of taking a vein out of the leg and placing it into the heart, to restore circulation. There is a 50 percent failure rate in the first year following the operation says Dr. Carrow. "If it weren’t for a little trick performed by the surgeon at the end of the operation, heart bypass surgery would be shown to be an outright failure," says Dr. Carrow.
"When the operation is completed the surgeon announces he wants to check for stasis (blood flow). He puts his hand behind the heart, and in doing so, breaks the nerve connections behind the heart. Once broken the patient feels no chest pain. It takes about 6-7 years before these nerves regenerate and then the pain returns. The surgeon temporarily eliminates nature’s way of letting the patient know their heart circulation is bad. It’s really a despicable trick to play because it makes the patient feel the operation worked and that they can return to the way they lived before the operation"
Here’s another expose, this time from the Wall Street Journal:
CANTON, Ohio -- At the peak of their careers, Philip Rice and Richard Schwartz were doctors who made heads turn. they dominated cardiovascular surgery in this city of 84,000. They posted some of the lowest surgical mortality rates in Ohio. Each doctor earned more than $1 million a year, and they reveled in the luxuries that a thriving practice could buy.
The two surgeons furnished their office at Aultman Hospital with Oriental rugs, glass sculptures and original oil painting. They drove matching sports cars -- first Jaguars, then black, top-of-the-line BMW 750s -- that they parked side-by-side in hospital bays reserved for them by name.
In their grandest gesture, Drs. Rice and Schwartz each December threw a black-tie dinner party at a local country club for 200 friends and colleagues. That single night’s entertainment cost $20,000, Dr. Schwartz says, but it established him and Dr. Rice as part of Canton’s social elite.
Then people in Canton began to learn unsettling things about the star surgeons. Deaths associated with bypass surgery surged in 1990 and 1991. Hospital disciplinary bodies began looking into reports of alcohol on Dr. Rice’s breath. And hospital lawyers uncovered a little-known, grisly episode in Dr. Schwartz’s past, involving the death of an infant in his care.
The Canton case provides a rare inside look at how a top medical practice boomed and then fell apart. Each year, state medical boards discipline about 3,000 doctors, or one in every 200, with steps ranging from reprimands to revoking of licenses. Most of these cases occur almost entirely in private, though, with only a brief case summary being released once a dispute is resolved. The public seldom learns about drawn-out and heated battles over whether to discipline a doctor.
The story continues, for many more hundreds of words. It is well worth getting a back copy of the Journal to read it all.
When a person is committing transgressions against his fellow-man, on a high-volume and daily basis, he MUST start to treat his fellow with contempt and feel that he, as God, can do no wrong. That’s why these surgeons are so confident that, even when drunk, they can help a patient!
In the Canton, Ohio case, Dr. Rice was accused of being drunk while performing surgery. He went into three different alcohol-treatment programs, but refused to have a urine test and was finally locked out of the operating room. One of the other doctors who was trying to cover up Dr. Rice’s drunkenness even said that "although Dr. Rice has a slight tremor in his hand, it seems that the tremor is always in the right direction!"
How many died because the hospital administrator wanted the profits more than living patients? How many have died because doctors won’t report the sins of other doctors -- because they know that their own sins would then be revealed!
What is remarkable, and instructive, about the Wall Street Journal giving this story the front page position is NOT the fraud of by-pass surgery being exposed, but that the real power brokers, the drug companies, are letting the world know that they are ready to replace by-pass surgery with drugs, and want to get rid of by-pass surgery in favor of drugs. THAT is the significance of such a national newspaper covering this story. Heart surgeons should see their own demise writ large upon this wall.
More Confessions
The Sins Of Dr. Ross Gardner
There is an extremely well-documented story about a physician from New Zealand named Ross Gardner. He moved into South Bend, Indiana in 1974. He convinced Memorial Hospital to open a bypass surgery service.
Dr. Ross, and a new partner, Dr. John Rubush, got rich doing 300 to 400 bypass surgeries per year, on into the 1980’s. They were grossing one to three million dollars per year.
Unfortunately, after some years of seeming success, the death rate began to rise and the Hospital’s NEW chief of surgery was forced to investigate. He actually did nothing. The Cardiologists in town decided that their patients would die if they sent them to Memorial. The Cardiologists simply quit sending patients to Memorial.
Only then did it come out that the death rate among the patients of Dr. Ross and Rubush was higher than ANY OTHER hospital in the United States doing bypass surgery! Finally the Chief of Surgery acted.
The data? Some 23% of all the Medicare patients there died after bypass surgery in 1984! This death rate was ten times higher than the best bypass surgery centers.
Was this unusual? Well no! What was unusual was that the statistics on death rates for bypass surgery had been kept hidden for many years and only in 1984, for the first time, did these figures finally get into the media.
Even with these terrible statistics, Dr. Gardner refused to admit any error, and the close-knit medical community tried to cover it all up. When Dr. Gardner was finally replaced, the new heart surgeon had an average death rate of only 3.8% of his bypass patients within the first year.
How many years had that fraudulent doctor murdered people in South Bend, Indiana, with full knowledge of anyone inside the Hospital who cared to look at the facts? In fact, when Dr. Rubush left, he was hired in Madisonville, Kentucky, to perform bypass surgery. One of his referrals spoke highly of him. Who was that? One of the Cardiologists in South Bend who wanted to get Rubush out of town!
Dr. Dean T. Mason’s Murder Rate
Perhaps the worst cover-up, and the most fraudulent bypass surgery story comes out of California.
Dr. Mason started the bypass unit at the University of California medical center at Davis, California. This was one of the largest medical teaching universities in the world, and in 1967 they knew that bypass surgery would make lots of money as well as lots of "history" for the University. They recruited Dr. Mason as one of the foremost young surgeons in the country.
The story is very well, and fully, told in Thomas Moore’s book, Heart Attack.
In brief, Dr. Mason started killing patients, and then started covering up his murder statistics. The high medical executives at the University conspired to hide the truth from the public and finally there were so many deaths that the bereaved relatives of the murder victims started suing.
It took a long time!
Finally, in 1984, the first of many lawsuits reached the stage where ONE person on the inside, an honest doctor, was ready to testify publicly to what he had learned in his private investigation of Dr. Mason’s death rate. Just the threat of his testimony sent the University into a private settlement of $3.1 million to avoid any public trial. That initial $3.1 million was just the first payment for a patient who was permanently damaged by Dr. Mason -- a life-time of care that would probably cost the University more than $40,000,000!
You didn’t hear about that in your local papers!
More people started lawsuits -- all settled out of court so that the media and the public could never find out the total truth. The University paid out secret settlements to at least 35 plaintiffs -- in some cases bereaved relatives and in other cases to patients whose surgeries were so badly botched that they would live the rest of their lives in need of intensive medical care.
The stories I’ve told in this Book are only the tip of the iceberg. When a fraudulent procedure is asserted to be good, and the surgeon knows he is lying, he MUST start justifying and covering up. These heart surgeons are murderers.
Now, do you think I am too extreme in asking that they register in the same manner as convicted child molesters!
News Item: From the Boston Globe, appearing in the Daily News on March 24, 1995:
Betsy A. Lehman was receiving cancer treatment at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and was ready to go home, cured, to her husband and two young children. At the last moment the hospital put her on one more series of cancer drugs, over-dosed her and she died.
Several staff members, including senior executives, should have seen the drug being given in lethal doses, and didn’t catch it. It was only caught, months later, by a clerk.
When doctors are delivering fraudulent service, they grow callous to both the truth and to life. Avoid chemotherapy and bypass surgeons.
If your health is to improve, and if the health of our nation is to improve, then YOU will have to do something about it. You can start by telling others about the information in this Book -- by getting extra copies and starting to stem the flow of lies pouring out on us from the government and many doctors.
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