I am an advocate of many things, including making a difference with a person’s health. I have met many types of people including good, bad, ugly, sociopathic, psychopathic, and so on.
My research foundation named the Vandry Hope Foundation was founded by my wife and I for a reason. www.vandryhhope.org
I have been an athlete my entire life, and I have seen injuries, pain, and chronic diseases. My wife and I work with the handicapped. I specialize with the legally blind, and find research to avoid blindness or control it. For example, there was a case regarding Macular Degeneration, and eye disease.
Opthalmologist Dr. Ronald Pugh on discussed Macular degeneration and how 27 of his patients reversed legal blindness and went back to 20/20 with supplements and minerals. Here is a youtube clip of Dr. Pugh discussing blindness and nutrition.1
TBI or Traumatic brain injury can be debilitating in so many ways, and along with treatments.
PTSD is a variety of alpha bet soup conditions. PTSD is not a disease like cancer. It is an emotional trauma or physical trauma that affects the way you perceive, think and react. It could be losing a job, a divorce, or something on a higher level such as losing a limb in a war, or witnessing an emotional damaging event.
These days, we have civilians and veterans seek medical care. We all know the glowing reviews on VA and the waiting line they help our vets with.
I get contacted weekly from people across USA that either read about our research, or a friend referred them, or a facebook email. I do not prescribe medicine, nor do I give medical opinions. However, there are references to toxicity of pharmaceuticals, correct nutrition, detoxification and much more that many do not know. One of the first points when I get contacted by a person with pain, or depression, lupus or whatever their condition is, they usually have a doctor that gave up on them.
Sometimes just support can be healing.
Medical doctor’s microscoped
Here is a frightening list of exactly who takes care of us in medicine. Here we go:
1. Dr. Joan Anzia, a psychiatry professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine on doctor suicide:
“Doctors are more likely than the general population to commit suicide, with an estimated 350 to 400 physicians killing themselves in the U.S. each year.”
2. Burnout rate among doctors growing over 3 years, study shows. Analyzing the results of 2011 and 2014 surveys of more than 6,000 doctors across the United States, researchers found that the number who met the criteria for burnout rose from 45 percent to 54 percent over that time. Research has shown that doctor burnout can lead to poor patient care, higher doctor turnover and a decrease in the overall quality of the health care system.2
3. Doctors look for ways to prevent suicide. A 2015 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that 29 percent of resident physicians have depressive symptoms.3
4. Why are doctors plagued by depression and suicide? A crisis comes into focus. More than 62,000 people — many of them medical professionals and their families — signed a petition calling on medical associations to track physician suicides, provide confidential counseling, and require doctor training programs to address a “culture of abuse” too often characterized by bullying, harassment, and humiliation. A study published in Academic Medicine finds that 35 percent of medical residents — young doctors recently out of medical school — experience clinically significant depression.4
5. Medical errors now third leading cause of death in United States. BMJ shows that “medical errors” in hospitals and other health-care facilities are incredibly common and may now be the third-leading cause of death in the United States — claiming 251,000 lives every year, more than respiratory disease, accidents, stroke and Alzheimer’s. Martin Makary, a professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who led the research, said in an interview that the category includes everything from bad doctors to more systemic issues such as communication breakdowns when patients are handed off from one department to another.
“It boils down to people dying from the care that they receive rather than the disease for which they are seeking care,” Makary said.5
6. In 1999, an Institute of Medicine report calling preventable medical errors an “epidemic” shocked the medical establishment and led to significant debate about what could be done.
Let me get this right on our confidence with the healthcare:
– 350 to 400 physicians killing themselves in the U.S. each year
– A three year research showed 45 to 54 percent of Medical Doctors have burnout
– 29 percent of resident physicians have depressive symptoms
– Medical errors now third leading cause of death in United States
– A 2005 essay published in JAMA found that male doctors killed themselves at a rate 70 percent higher than other professionals; among female doctors, that rate ranged from 250 to 400 percent higher.
– Doctors are prone to drug and alcohol abuse. It’s estimated that rates of addiction among the general population run from 8% to 10%; among physicians, the rates start at 10% and rise to 15%.6
– As many as one-sixth of primary care doctors leave medicine mid-career.6
So roughly, it shows on a study about 50% of Medical Doctors have burnout, 29% have depressive symptoms, an 15% have drug or alcohol abuse. Doesn’t that total 94% have conditions that make you leery of relying on their prescriptions? And lets add 400 MD suicides each year, and the last one–MEDICAL ERRORS ARE THIRD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN USA!
There are good, overworked, stressed doctors. I know some great Chiropractors, MDs, Surgeons, Neurologists that deserve a million dollars each. And there are sociopathic terrible ones. Bedside manner is a primary concern for the health profession.
Doctors, did you forget DO NO HARM?
The well-known phrase “first, do no harm” comes from The History of Epidemics, which is part of the Hippocratic corpus:
“…But in those cases in which there was no danger, and where a concoction was made in proper time, it should be considered whether the translations of humours were good or critical signs. Concoctions always portend a crisis, and safety from the disease; but crudities, or inconcoctions are soon converted into bad translations, or a defect or want of crisis, or pain, or a duration of the disease, or death, or a relapse. What will happen from these should be considered from other circumstances, as to know what is past, to discern what is present, and to predict the future. And these two things in disease are particularly to be attended to, to do good, and not to do harm. The whole art of medicine may be circumscribed in three distinctions, medicine, the sick-man, and the physician who is the minister of the art; and the conflict lies between the sick-person, the physician, and the disease.”
For all veterans or civilians, there are answers. For those who do not believe the opioid crisis can be beaten, please look at a documentary my wife and I did with veterans pain using a product we created for pain relief years ago.
There is nutrition that corrects illnesses in many cases. Many doctors do not want to listen to results. I cannot state how many times veterans or civilians told me about their joint pain or especially hip pain, and then they explained to me how they had hip surgery yet they feel worse.
I remember a chiropractor years ago that had two hip surgeries, and he lectured to me that it was genetic. I corrected him that it was not a genetic issue unless he had a condition he was born with. I then sent him these facts:
1. 2012 in The Lancet, researchers used data from the National Joint Registry of England and Wales – the world’s largest joint replacement registry – to track more than 400,000 patients who underwent primary hip replacement from 2003 to 2011. Of these, 31,171 received metal-on-metal implants – hips with a ball and cup made of a cobalt and chromium alloy. After five years, 6.2 percent of metal-on-metal hips had failed.
2. February 29, 2012, Metals from hip replacements present toxic risk for millions, investigation warns British Medical Journal and BBC Newsnight investigation. (British Medical Journal and BBC Newsnight investigation)
So why am I mentioning hip surgery in this article? Because it has to do with a common factor regarding nutrition. Do you know what causes 94% of all hip surgeries?
Osteoarthritis is the primary indication for 94% of total hip arthroplasties.7
What is Osteoarthritis?
Osteoarthritis is a degeneration of cartilage or a protein of collagen in your joints. Simple improvement in collagen II in diet worked well in a Harvard study on Rheumatoid arthritis.8
By the way, the chiropractor had no answer fir the above data, his only response was his mother just had hip surgery so it must be genetic. My response was if family generations all smoke, than they too could claim lung cancer runs in the family. I added to him if his theory were true, why did she have it after his, and not 30 years ago?
There are good doctors, and I am currently starting a list to refer to on our vandryhope.org website. We have some on there currently. If you suffer from chronic pain or other issues, and if you are looking for solutions, I must state that you are the source of overcoming. Feel free to email me on facebook. If you are a medical doctor, and have chronic pain or other conditions, please contact me via email and you have my support.
There are many people that have consulted with me on nutrition. Yet the answers have to be within your power, not relying on a pharmacy or an MD that ignores your tests or doesn’t discuss them with you. If you have a good doctor, keep him or her for life! I have an average if 5-20 veterans each week I consult. I had one who had Osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, duabetes, high blood pressure, insomnia, anxiety, depression, PTSD among others.
He had no answers and VA or medicine did not either. I told Him I would walk with him, and show him the road but he has to be the one to walk the walk. He has, and is a different man than just a month ago. And for every Case like this, I receive 100 others who do nothing, have no motivation or simply feel I am going to do everything for them. I cannot help those, only those who get up. If you can’t get up, I will pick you up, but you have to fight with the spiritual and mental weapons to overcome and empower yourself.
My wife when she lectures on her seminars she always makes a point to the audience. She states heart disease and cancer and other diseases are terrible, but there is one worse than all diseases combined. It is called laziness. And this is not directed to everyone with a chronic condition, but to those who have answers and do absolutely nothing. This disease is incurable. Sadly, I remember many cases like this. For example, last year a veteran that stated he could not sleep, had pain so bad and at times had to sit in a wheelchair asked me for help. I fedexed him ($60) our Miracle oil product (did not charge him) and got it to him overnight. When we spoke on the phone for three hours he asked me for help. Guess what? I never heard from him again, but I saw him on facebook complaining about VA benefits. See how sad this can be?
Our motto at Vandry hope is ‘Empowering through knowledge’, and we believe in that. Many times my wife and I receive thanks and hugs for reaching and simply being there, but as Jesus stated to the blind man in the Bible Mark 10:46-52:
51 “What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked him. The blind man said, “Rabbi, I want to see.”
52 “Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.” Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.
For all you good MD’s out there, we need you badly. Our veterans are dying each day, and our civilians need you too. But we need you healthy, and not overstressed and overworked.
William Vandry
President, Vandry Hope Foundation
Chronic pain – TBI – legal blindness – PTSD research
References:
1.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acIQUWR_qvc
2. http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/sc-doctor-burnout-health-1202-20151202-story.html
3. http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/sc-doctor-suicide-depression-health-0713-20160630-story.html
4. https://www.statnews.com/2016/07/21/depression-suicide-physicians/
5. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your health/wp/2016/05/03/researchers-medical-errors-now-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-united-states/?utm_term=.e169628c166a
6. http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-grinspoon-addicted-doctors-20160605-snap-story.html
7. Katz JN, Losina E, Barrett J, Phillips CB, Mahomed NN, Lew RA, Guadagnoli E, Harris WH, Poss R, Baron JA. Association between hospital and surgeon procedure volume and outcomes of total hip replacement in the United States medicare population. J Bone Joint Surg Am 2001; 83-A:1622-9.
7. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12571867
8. “Effects of Oral Administration of Type II Collagen on Rheumatoid Arthritis” Study Performed by David E. Trentham, Roselynn A. Dynesius-Trentham, E. John Orav, Daniel Combitchi, Carlos Lorenzo, Kathryn Lea Sewell, David A. Hafler, and Howard L. Weiner