Magnetic resonance imaging is the new technique for 21St century medicine, The eighty percent when they come to the hospital for illness say- “I want an MRI to diagnose me because it is new.” Do they know any better? Are they inundated with pedantic diatribe by people whose only aim in life is to make money? Are they serving humankind or annihilating it? A long time ago, when the United States was one nation under God, a good history and physical combined with a chemistry panel could diagnose 99 percent of all maladies under the sun. If an x-ray and or CAT scan was thrown in, this figure approaches one hundred percent, why do we, the eighty percent need or want an MRI. Are they better? Do they demonstrate occult processes not viewable otherwise? Is this a low-cost economical technology that certainly will revolutionize medicine and improve the health status of the nation? Let us the 80 percent look a little closer.
If a low-income person walks to the receiving side of an imaging center, they see a huge transformer with a myriad of wires hooked up to the power lines. MRI uses a huge amount of electricity and this cost passes on to the public and is paid for by one third of the GNP of the United States. What the dang is this newfangled thing they call MRI? According to the ivory tower elitists, when a person passes under a magnetic field of awesome magnitude, the ions in the body align with the magnetic field. When the power turns off, the ions realign to their former states emitting a signal. Sensors pick up the signal and the result is processed by a computer to reveal an image and a radiologist can choose any color they want to display on their QLED computer screen. The question is, Is the signal conglomerated by the computer processor real, or an artifact of no physiological significance? Does this expensive representation relay information that is not available otherwise at on hundredth of the cost? MRI scanners cost millions of dollars to make, transport and install and the electricity costs all come from the GNP and the trillions of dollars that wage earning taxpayers pay. I have a stark realization for all unfortunate souls reading these lines.
Lenz’s law of electromagnetism states:
The direction of an induced current is always such that it opposes the change in magnetic flux that produced it.
In other words, intense magnetic fields induce a current in your body that burns the DNA. This fulgurating current destroys cellular DNA and induces cancer. It is already known that people who work with high power lines have an increased incidence of leukemia and other malignancies and this is topping on the cake. Magnetic fields induce a current like the plug in you living room that powers your computer and television set. Just because someone is of the twenty percent and has a high IQ does not mean they are ethical. Ethicality is what human medicine is all about and all states require licensure after a rigorous education to practice healing human beings. Do doctors need to read anymore? Are the intuitively exceptional and politically correct governing body exempt from national testing and subjective licensure? A person, man or woman does not have to be a genius to practice medicine, they have to be ethical! Isn’t this what civilization being all about? Brother helps brother and shares the bounty so we by the grace of God can live together.
Tinsley Harrison, one of the last vestiges of decency in the United States stated in his special edition of “Harrisons Internal Medicine”. “Let us not discard the old just for the sake of the new” This is the preface of his special edition, and all the medical geniuses out there can go fuck themselves.