His name was Robert. He became autistic at the age of four and developed unremitting colitis in high school. Whether the condition was due to a chronic intestinal tuberculosis infection or due to inherited immunodeficiency syndrome the result is the same. The medical establishment treated his condition with anti-inflammatory drugs and anti-metabolites, the same drugs used for cancer patients and when these did not help, they switched to immunoglobulins which ultimately precipitated his demise. Balazide, azathioprine and Stelara gave Robert a fulminant cancer of the liver which ultimately killed him. Antibiotics would have been more practical and would not have induced fatal neoplastic disease.
Although Robert was 26, he was autistic and the medical establishment convinced him he would be better off dying in a hospice rather than a hospital. Robert decided he wanted to die at home so the hospice installed a hospital bed and oxygen concentrator to make him more comfortable because his oxygen level in the blood was falling. The nurses were very kind but insistent. One blond who dresses in skin tight surgical garb told us to increase the dose of the medications he was being given. Another nurse who was quite masculine in her assertations said to continue the medications.
The medications were a benzodiazepine anxiolytic and a schedule one narcotic analgesic. Lorazepam and morphine were instituted at onset and Robert developed a huge rash over the entirety of his body. Upon consultation, a doctor-nurse at the hospice substituted oxycodone and the rash started going away. Robert at this point refused to eat so his parents would pour ensure provided by the hospice down his throat. He was incontinent and paralyzed and had to be changed in entirety diaper and bedclothes three times a day. He would gasp for air as if paralyzed and I think the medication was doped with succinyl-choline. Succiny-choline is a paralytic agent like curare that anesthesiologists prefer to decrease muscle tone at surgery. Given chronically, Succiny-choline slowly paralyzes the breathing center in the mid-brain and the patient stops breathing. Succinyl-choline is like acetyl-choline the neurotransmitter except instead of a two carbon acetate molecule on the choline it has a four carbon succinate molecule. The result is than non-specific esterase enzymes that hydrolyze acetyl-choline at the synapse cannot function, the cell continues to depolarize and not snap back into repolarization. On a human level this means the body senses it needs oxygen but the respiratory drive that provides the force for inspiration is paralyzed. So it was for Robert who went blind and carried a flashlight in his hand because he could not see and he eventually suffocated to death. Once admitted to hospice care, a patient can only leave as a corpse. My wife watched this as he died and I sat with the corpse for three hours until the coroner picked up the dead body. Prefer to die in a hospital.
This is the kind of treatment the 80% get with Medicare. The other 20% get transplants and slowly evaporate at fancy assisted care facilities. Serial killer inmates are euthanized more humanly than poor indigent patients of the general population. These heinous criminals receive Nembutal, a barbital sedative to stop them breathing within seconds. Robert gasped and writhed for a week. For the most part, allopathic medicine does nothing but treat the symptoms and deliver to patients medicines that are more effective carcinogens than they are treatment medicines. Robert was tortured to death because he was sick and poor. Like Upton Sinclair and the ones before him something needs to be done about medical care for the rest of us. All the ballyhoo of social medicine and the enormous cost of one-third of the national budget, that the politician’s diatribe is wasted on a medical system where the only medicines that work are antibiotics and treatments are often worse than the disease they are meant to treat. Trauma surgery is only effective when you pour in fluids and sew up the bleeders before the patient dies.
It is time to ask God for salvation. Why does he let genetic defects and fatal illnesses propagate in the general population when the result is disappointment, failure, pain and horror and a ghastly death. Por favor pide el dios para piedad para los seres humanos.
Screenings and blood draws and prophylactic medicine are the 21st century version of a three-ring circus. They do nothing but waste the time of the patient and generate money for the medical profession. Human beings worship money. Society is better served by generating clean water and unpreserved food for the fast-paced inhabitants of a capitalistic society. Giving human beings a clean healthy life is far better than all the fantastic medicine in the world that exists. Dios tiene piedad. Fentanyl and Gin is a better way to go and quicker and painless.