When I graduated from medical school in 2005 I did not realise that I had been largely trained in allopathic medicine. In fact, I did not even know what the term meant. The word ‘allopathy’ was not used by our lecturers or by the doctors that led us through ward rounds and the operating theatres. The only terms that were used were ‘health care’, ‘evidence-based medicine’ and ‘best practice’. Words that are repeated so often within the industry that most doctors believe them to be true. However, those who scratch beneath the surface can be in for a surprise.

Before continuing, I would like to make it clear that I do not think most doctors are bad people or knowing promoters of harmful practices. It is easy for doctors to feel they are on the right track with the rewards of a high income, reverence by the community and accolades from the industry itself. When I was in the system, pharmaceutical companies flew me to all-expenses paid conferences and I was a presenter on network TV. That ended abruptly in 2020 when my husband Mark (also a former doctor) and I started publishing our own research findings.

One of the precipitants to our “waking up” was the 2013 book by Dr Peter Gøtzsche, Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime. The veteran physician and researcher justifiably condemned most of the pharmaceutical industry and said in the introduction to his text: 

“The main reason we take so many drugs is that drug companies don’t sell drugs, they sell lies about drugs…the reason patients trust their medicine is that they extrapolate the trust they have in their doctors into the medicines they prescribe.”

In his book, Gøtzsche outlines the systemic corruption, including the manipulation of doctors and the invention of phoney diseases in order to get populations to inappropriately consume large amounts of prescription drugs.

By 2020, I was even more against pharmaceuticals than Gøtzsche and as I have previously explained to Canberra Daily readers, I no longer give paracetamol to my kids. Our research went deeper into the medical system and my scepticism continued to grow, as readers would have noted in my foreword for the 2022 book Terrain Therapy:

“Last century Dr [Ulric] Williams wrote that, ‘the modern medical system, to the extent of perhaps 80%, is nothing but a gigantic, cruel, ludicrous, lucrative, transparent fraud.’ In my view, nothing has changed except perhaps that 80% is now an underestimate of the fraud taking place…It is indeed only a medical system, not a health system.”

The main reason that the medical system became largely disconnected from health is because it is now almost exclusively allopathic in nature. For anyone looking up the meaning of ‘allopathy’, a word of warning. As we documented in our book The Final Pandemic, the Merriam-Webster dictionary deceptively changed their definition of the word while we were researching it!:

May 2022: “a system of medical practice that aims to combat disease by use of remedies (as drugs or surgery) producing effects different from or incompatible with those produced by the disease being treated.”

November 2022: “a system of medical practice that emphasizes diagnosing and treating disease and the use of conventional, evidence-based therapeutic measures (such as drugs or surgery).”

The original definition is correct. The new definition with “evidence-based” introduces the same catchword we were hypnotised with in medical school. It is highly misleading because allopathy is no doubt considered conventional in the modern era but this does not mean that it works as is generally claimed.

For many people, the easiest way to think of allopathic medicine is “poison, cut, burn”. This corresponds to the three major “treatment” types of drugs, surgery and radiation. There is no scientific reason for why mainstream medicine has become so heavily dependent on these modalities. And while there may be a perception that they are powerful therapies, all of them typically cause damage to the body.

There are of course life-saving surgeries and essential drugs such as insulin for type one diabetics. However, these examples make up only a tiny minority of medical system activity – far more often surgery is performed on an elective basis and drugs are prescribed when they are not required. Just like Dr Ulric Williams last century, my husband Mark and I were horrified once we started investigating our profession and abandoned most of the “treatments” we had been trained to administer.

The problem with much of the medical system’s “evidence base” is that it may be looking at an event of interest by simply comparing a new drug to an older one (or surgery compared to “conservative” treatment). I became acutely aware of this problem when I worked in the clinical trials industry and could see how data could be selectively presented to give the impression that an intervention was beneficial. The effect may come with statistical significance but it has nothing to do with overall health. Additionally, evidence that does not suit the desired narrative is not published.

So how did the medical system end up this way? Like most large industries, there are enormous amounts of money being made. In fact, it is a multi-trillion dollar entity with expenditure on “health” now exceeding 10% of GDP at the world level. The medical industry has been infiltrated by vested interests who benefit hugely from the status quo and will vilify anyone questioning the narratives. On this matter, Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime included a chapter titled “Intimidation, threats and violence to protect sales” exposing the actions taken against doctors who have spoken out. Apparently I am also one of the targets with the medical “regulators” currently trying to extort $160,000 (AUD$145,000) from me. 

The good news is that the vast majority of people do not need allopathic medicine in the first place. The crucial step is being prepared to let go of the medical system and any feelings of dependence on it. Like many doctors who see beyond the disease models they were taught, we have found that the highest levels of health are achieved through the simple practices of “right thinking and right living”. There is almost no need for complicated and expensive interventions. It is beyond the scope of this article to cover everything here but you can find plenty of free resources on our website that deal with hundreds of health topics. A better way of being is there for the taking.

Dr Sam Bailey is a medical author and health educator from New Zealand. Her books include Virus Mania, Terrain Therapy and The Final Pandemic.

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