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Critiques and Criticisms of the Dis-ease Management System

Name for this episode: Interview with Jonathan Wright, MD - continuing to lay the premise for That’s Good Medicine.

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Tahoma Clinic FDA Raid: We discuss the historic Tahoma Clinic raid of 1992 when armed FDA agents stormed Dr. Wright’s medical practice during clinic hours. What onerous things was Dr. Wright doing to his patients to incite the wrath of a federal agency to terrorize him and his patients? He was administering intravenous (IV) vitamins and recommending the amino acid tryptophan to some of his patients. The FDA agents confiscated Dr. Wright’s patient records, his computers and medical supplies and didn’t return them for 3 years. The FDA doesn’t have the authority to regulate patient care. What’s amazing is that Dr. Wright was never charged of wrongdoing. The raid on Dr. Wright’s clinic was one of the first forays in a campaign of terror by the FDA to send messages to integrative medicine doctors and natural product companies that they could be raided and shut down too. How would you feel if the FDA confiscated your medical records from your doctor? Why did this really happen? Is this sort of despotism by our federal government a thing of the past? Maybe not. Dr. Douglass thinks Congressman Ron Paul for President was (is?) one of our only hopes for protecting health freedoms.

Interview with Dr.Jonathan Wright: What’s the real ‘alternative medicine’? Hint: It’s about ’space alien molecules.’

Good Medicine Word of the Week: Patent Medicines. What we know as pharmaceuticals, or ‘drugs,’ are really patent medicines (‘space alien molecules’ - as Dr. Wright described them). The FDA essentially approves only pharmaceuticals (’designer drugs’), not natural products. And this approval process gives the FDA tremendous power.

Next week’s show: Part3 of this 3-part Dropping the Bomb series. We’ll reflect on what Dr. Wright taught us during today’s interview, and why patent medicines (’drugs’) give the FDA so much power. And why this is important for you to understand, as we explore - on future installments - the global power play between conventional (’allopathic’) medicine and integrative medicine.

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