Video Transcript: Do Doctors Profit from Chemotherapy?
Ty Bollinger: Not only are we getting that scenario where oncologists are prescribing chemotherapy for patients that may not even have cancer and they’re making money on it, right, they make—I interviewed Dr. Sunil Pai. And he calls it a reimbursement, but it’s really a kickback. Doctors, oncologists get kickbacks on chemo. That’s unique among the drug world. That’s, to my knowledge, the only class of drugs that they get kickbacks on is chemo.
Mike Adams: Yeah. It’s almost designed for corruption. It is a corrupt system. In almost any other industry, that activity would be illegal. Like in the Olympics. When the decision makers for the Olympics committee, if they accept bribes, which they’ve been caught doing, well, that’s considered criminal. They might be arrested or kicked out of the committee.
When doctors get kickbacks in the cancer industry, that’s just considered business. The problem is it’s business that is not in the interest of the consumer. As we’ve seen, as in this case, consumers are being deliberately harmed and milked for money—milked for insurance money, Medicaid money, Medicare money. You see, in many cases, the patients themselves aren’t making the payments, the payments come from government.
So it’s a racket that involves at least four parties: the cancer doctor, the chemotherapy manufacturer/drug company, which lobbies the government, and the government makes the payments. And the patient, their body is the vessel through which all of this nefarious activity takes place; all these violations.
But you got to have a patient’s body in order for this racket to work, for everybody to make their money. Truth is they don’t need the patient’s body. It’d be better if they left the patient out of it and just threw the chemotherapy in the trash, and billed the government, and the government paid the drug company and left the patient alone. That would be better, believe it or not.
I was told by my Oncologist that because he doesn’t work for private industry and works for a clinic he doesn’t get a reimbursement from Chemo.
Hi Harold,
Thanks for sharing this with us!
Most clinics ARE in fact “private industry”, so he was just trying to deflect or disguise the issue.
Even if that doctor was not directly receiving any reimbursement from the drug company, the clinic itself probably was. Imagine what kind of “arrangements’ there are between the clinic and the doctors…
Doctors do get kickbacks on lots of drugs. The doctors are given free samples and told to give them to the patients. The kickback cam be various ways – I know of 2 ways from a while back before computers were so compliated: computers to document what happens when the patient takes the samples, or holidays. I bet there are many other ways they get kickbacks that would be hard to discover.
First off, I am a medical doctor trained in traditional western medicine, however, I am a big supporter of using as little medication as possible, and a huge proponent of using a plant based, natural approach to healing many chronic diseases. Unfortunately, I am forced to use medications in the majority of my patients because they are free to make their own choices, and often do not choose to live a clean healthy lifestyle. I can tell you it is very frustrating, but a fact of life. That being said, I can tell you that we do not get kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies and it is very frustrating when people think that. I have been practicing for 14 years and things have changed a lot in that time. I do hear about the days when drug reps would take physicians on golf outings or to ball games, but the laws have changed and that does not happen anymore, and not in my time. When I was in medical school we would get pens and sticky notes, small hand held drug and antibiotic references, and an occasional textbook, but they were the same textbook you could get at the bookstore, aside from maybe a sticker with the drugs name on the inside cover. So for a poor, indebted medical student and resident those were nice “kickbacks” but hardly an incentive that coerced me into only prescribing that product all of the time. About 6 years ago the laws became more strict and now that doesn’t even happen. The most a physician may get now is a lunch at the office and that is used mainly for introducing new products, new studies, new insurance formulary coverage, or new product warnings. Reps are very regulated on what they can say and have to be fair balanced. If they value their jobs they comply, and most are good people that do that. We do have the option to get samples, but that is not a kickback for a physician, it is a resource for patients. It helps them get there insulin if they can afford it, or to get started on a blood pressure medication for a week to make sure they will tolerate it before they pick up the prescription. We do not get any incentive to prescribe certain products over others, there is no monetary gain for us, in fact it is often a bigger hassle to try and prescribe branded medication because of insurance. In some larger hospital systems, physicians are actually incentivized to prescribe generic drugs to save the hospital money. So most doctors do not get “kickbacks on lots of drugs”.
Now I will say that I am primary care, so I am not sure how the oncology field works or if things are different there.
The bottom line is, while getting everybody to follow my advise and go plant based, start juicing, exercise 30 minutes daily, stop drinking soda, alcohol, salt, sugar, smoking, etc is my dream, 90% of my patients will not do it. So I can either hope that each time I say it they will comply, or treat their stroke level blood pressure, knowing they wont. And in those cases medications are an unfortunate necessity until hopefully one day they may actually change their mind ,at which point I would gladly ween them off their medications as their body healed.
I am at present diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer. The cancer wastreated with 6 rounds of chemo & a hysterectomy. One year later the cancer is back in my bowel lining. I don’t want chemo. I have told my Oncologist doctor but they are trying to persuade me to have it. I don’t want to. I want to treat it naturally and with help and guidance from natural health experts. Can you help me find a way to manage my body and my diet?
Adelaide Tane from Tasmania Australia.
0432379015 or adiet4@yahoo.com.au
PS: I WANT TO LIVE!!!!
Hi Adelaide –
We appreciate you reaching out to us about this.
I’m so sorry to hear about your diagnosis – I’ll be sure to pray for you.
Unfortunately, we are unable to give any kind of medical advice. The best advice we can give you is to consult with one of the doctors we interviewed in the Global Quest series so they can give you the most appropriate advice based on your exact condition.
Please note that we are not able to select an expert for you.
We’ve created a page with the experts’ contact info as it was available to us.
Here’s the link to the actual webpage:
http://thetruthaboutcancer.com/experts-info-sheet/
We do have one more resource you may be interested in. During our Live Event 2017 series, Dr. Patrick Quillin suggested contacting The Institute of Functional Medicine to locate a practitioner in your area.
If you are interested, here is the link to search for a Functional Medicine Practitioner in your area: https://www.ifm.org/find-a-practitioner/
I’m also attaching the info about the Hope4Cancer clinic in Tijuana, MX if you’d like to reach out to them.
http://www.hope4cancer.com/
https://hope4cancer.com/schedule-a-call/
Please also see the resources below in case they will be helpful to you.
From our beginning, we have supported charities that really help these cancer patients.
HealingStrong:
http://healingstrong.com/
https://www.facebook.com/healingstrong
HealingStrong supports MANY cancer patients and are amazing. HealingStrong, a nonprofit organization, is supported 100% by volunteers, who are experienced in using natural strategies. The organization’s mission is to educate, encourage, equip, and empower those seeking comprehensive natural strategies to heal strong and stay strong.
HealingStrong Connect Groups meet monthly in various areas of the U.S. and South Australia to link others interested in natural strategies, holistic protocols, and local resources. Their groups focus on mind, body and emotional healing based on Biblical promises, as they believe the God of the Bible is our healer. For more information on how to start a group, or become involved in one, please go to http://www.healingstrong.org/groups, and like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/healingstrong.
Cancer Crackdown is so awesome and helps patients without a lot of money get supplements and treatments and even helps them raise money:
http://cancercrackdown.org/
https://www.facebook.com/CancerCrackdown
Also, the Independent Cancer Research Foundation is another charity that we support, also known as Cancer Tutor. They have been a TREMENDOUS help for cancer patients and have a TON of life-saving information they give out freely and they do real research into treatments for cancer that are outside of the toxic Big Pharma Big 3:
https://thetruthaboutcancer.com/independent-cancer-research-foundation/
The best that we can suggest is to contact Healing Strong and Cancer Crackdown for any need in financial resources.
We also support Mary Beth’s “Nick Gonzalez Foundation” which is bringing Nick’s protocol to the people…which is one of the most powerful cancer-killing protocols out there.
I hope this is helpful! Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us again if there’s anything else we can help with.
Wishing you endless blessings and love!