Hospitals & Asylums
September 2011
By Anthony J.
Sanders
I met
Apollo on Rosh Hashanah. He was bright
yellow, carried an ornamental lute and ate a small bowl of green mash. He is such a bright yellow I could see he was
severely jaundiced on the moonless night I first saw him from a distance, the
week before. On Rosh Hashanah he sat
down next me at the food co-op where I was eating a bowl of brown rice and
drinking a cup of decaffeinated coffee.
I asked him if he was naturally yellow.
He said “no I have septic liver disease involving inflamed bile
ducts”. The doctors had just given him
less than a year to live for the fifth year in a row. He is as sick as he has ever been. He informed me that liver disease causes much
more discomfort than the painless death from jaundice it is made out to be in
the literature and that dandelion greens that are reputed to be good for the
liver only irritate his bile ducts.
After ruling out viral hepatitis and liver transplant I asked him if he
had ever been prescribed the antibiotic metronidazole. Metronidazole is effective against the amoeba
E. histolytica
that attacks the liver and is the most under-prescribed of 3,200 FDA approved
drugs in 1998, that could theoretically cut the number of abdominal and
thoracic surgeries in half as the result of its high level of effectiveness
healing ulcers and infections of the gastrointestinal tract and . After ensuring that metronidazole was indeed
“conventional” he suddenly finished his green mash, grabbed his lute and
left. I shouted “metronidazole, write it
down”. He didn’t give me time to do more
than to warn him not to get cancer. To
limit cancer risk metronidazole is taken one tablet twice a day for ten days,
wait a month, and then take another course, if needed, or for not more than
three weeks max and six weeks between courses.
I didn’t get to tell him that I had two tablets left, was getting more
in the mail and, although it is the only drug that quiets my bursitis enough to
run to town and back, I would gladly give him all I have to see if it would
tone down his jaundice. It was such a
humbling experience healing the Greek God of the sun, music, and healing I
forgot to go shopping and had to walk ten miles to buy a midnight snack.
After
reading Thomas J. Moore’s Prescription
for Disaster (1998) I hope my October revision of Book 8 Drug Regulation
will lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to shift the focus of their labor
from new drug research to the regulation of both the pharmaceutical industry
and the prescribing habits of physicians. To monitor the safety of 3,200
approved drugs taken daily by millions of people, the FDA has a staff of just
54 in 1998, by comparison, to evaluate an average of 25 new drugs a year, the
FDA has 1,500 chemists, doctors, toxicologists and statistical experts. In 1998 only about 4 percent of the FDA
budget for drug evaluation went to monitor the safety of existing drugs. Annually at least 1-3 million people are
severely injured, 400,000 overdose and 100,000-140,000 die from adverse drug
reactions. No other type of accident causes
a million hospital admissions a year. The
four basic drug safety tests are addiction, cancer risk, unusual toxicity and
cardiac effects. Of the top 50 drugs, 7
can cause addiction, 18 have cancer risks, 18 are unusually toxic, and 25 have
cardiac risks. More than 90 percent of
drugs are potentially hazardous to pregnant women and only five, including
folic acid, are considered safe. One out
of eight drugs can damage the bone marrow, the critical source of new red and
white blood cells. In more than 700
million annual office visits in the United States, a prescription of a drug is
the single most likely outcome. More
than a million prescriptions are written every hour of the working day, in a
year’s time eight prescription will be written for every man, woman and child
in the United States. Inappropriate drugs were prescribed for 1 out
of 5 elderly patients, one survey showed.
In another study, 60 percent of the patients went home with a drug that
wouldn’t benefit them. Neuroleptics
(antipsychotics and antidepressants) and hypnotics (sleep aids) are the leading
cause of fatal drug overdose reported to the Poison Control Center and massive
recalls and criminal prosecution of corrupt practices are needed to terminate all
psychiatric licenses. On the other hand,
Antibiotics, insulin and contraceptives are so effective they should be made
available over-the-counter. If given for
an infection against which the antibiotic is effective, it will be effective
about 90 percent of the time. It is
highly important to note that antibiotics are an effective cure for bacterial
endocarditis while heart medicines endlessly treat symptoms. Contraceptives are of course better than 99
percent effective at preventing pregnancy and for those with juvenile onset diabetes
insulin is virtually a 100 percent effective alternative to dying.
September
30 is the last day of FY 2011 and October 1 the first day of FY 2012 so at
least a cursory review the federal budget should be performed at this time. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) estimates
a $1.6 trillion deficit in FY 2011 and $1.1 trillion deficit in FY 2012, 10.9%
and 7.0% of GDP respectively. The reason
for these record deficits is twofold, in FY 2009 expenditures increased as much
as revenues decreased, and also there are enormous accounting discrepancies in
spending between what the OMB and CBO estimate and the federal agencies that do
the actual spending report. In other
words, the bailouts sabotaged the federal accounting which will continue to
sabotage the general economy until the balance sheets are repaired. European bailouts should not cause any
increase in U.S. federal debt or spending.
Finally, appointing his own Defense Secretary, after two totally incompetent
years, military spending has been reduced to an acceptable level of $517
billion in FY 2012 and it is conceivable that the federal budget deficit could
be restrained within normal limits of 3% of GDP if Transportation Department and
Department of Health and Human Services spending is limited to within 3% annual
growth of FY 2008, $75 billion and $780 billion, a $50 billion and $100 billion
reduction, respectively. The Social
Security Administration (SSA) needs to pay for SSI from the OASDI trust funds relieving
this >$50 billion cost from the insolvent General Fund without incurring an
OASDI deficit needing a FICA tax increase until FY 2020. With the termination of
Bush tax cuts, revenues should return to normal levels in FY 2012. The Republican saboteurs, the Transportation
Secretary, Social Security Commissioner, Chairman of the Federal Reserve and
CIA Director, must be immediately removed from office to protect the political economy
from intentional harm. In the mean while
the Treasury Secretary is highly recommended to hire HA to publicly
cross-examine the incredibly flawed OMB and CBO accounting and/or do it himself,
to provide a new practical and professional overview of the federal budget, that
would foster creative financing such as the United States Postal Service Pension Obligation Recalculation and
Restoration Act of 2011 HR 1351.
Graduation from Homeland Security in
Separation of Customs and Domestic Emergency Management Functions HA-5-9-11
To question the beauty of amending Title 6 of the United States Code
and Code of Federal Regulation from Domestic Security to Customs and the Department
of Homeland Security (DHS) to Customs. To enact
“Customs” as the occupiers of what was St. Elizabeth’s hospital.
To impeach M.J. Astrue (R)
Esq. Commissioner of Social Security and rude Ray Lahood
(IL-R) Transportation Secretary. To authorize SSA, DMV and other
identification providers to file USCIS Freedom of Information/Privacy Act Form
G-639 so as not to burden clients with Fraud
and related activity in connection with identification documents,
authentication features, and information.
To
limit Transportation spending to $75 billion in FY 2011, $77.7 billion in FY
2013 and 3% annual growth thereafter. To
implicate Harvard law in the use of weapons of mass destruction and require a national hazardous
substance response plan be drafted regarding styrene chemicals. To
transfer FEMA and $7 billion for Hurricane Irene to White House in OMB tables. To remove NPPD
Federal Protective Service and State and Local Law Enforcement Training to DoJ Criminal Division in OMB tables and reality. Fine NPPD the $1.3 million cost
of the cyber-mission integration program. To grant proceeds to FEMA for the costs of Hurricane
Irene and USCIS if needed to process freedom of information/privacy act claims
swiftly and without interference whereas the USCIS budget has declined from the
previous year and USCIS is on strike in regards to mailing naturalization
papers to the author of this brief. To question the moral hazard of lawyers in consular,
executive, legislative office, or in this case, traffic judge and diplomats in
domestic security operations, and punishing TD for their graft by recusing
lawyers from the role of traffic judge, the busiest jurisdiction, and replacing
the docket with a licensed social worker to ensure Americans receive the just
compensation they deserve for their automobiles and for the Federal Court of Claims to appoint a social worker to
prove the 20th century professional can judge civil claims in
writing. To
relieve the author of private ownership of government work. Be Customs billed $5 a night for the HA bicentennial
of the Naval Hospital Act of Feb. 26, 1811.
Book 5 Customs (ID)
To
amend Chapter 5 Columbia Institution for the Deaf §231-250. The Millennium Development, MDGs for 1990-2015,
cuts in half the number of hungry people to 622 million people and percent of
people in poverty to 22.75% by 2015 from 45.5% in 1990. In 2005 843 million people, 12.5% of the
population, were hungry and over a billion lived on less than $1.25 a day, in
2009 after the economic crisis the number of hungry people rose to 18%, 1.2
billion people, and the number of people living on less than $1.25 a day rose
from 21.5% in 2007 to 22.9% in 2009. The
other goals, education, gender equality, and water and sanitation are on track
and the spread of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has been reversed. Official Development Assistance (ODA) growth
must be sustained to achieve the intermediate target of 0.7% of GDP on the way
to a 1% social security style payroll tax for international development. Voting at the Bretton Woods institutions must
be reformed from contribution based to population based, a one person one vote
democratic system. To end dependency
upon the U.S. dollar as reserve currency IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDR) shall
be the international reserve currency.
To improve global public health, diplomacy and reputation the U.S. shall
change the name of Title 6 of the US Code and CFR from Domestic Security and
Homeland Security to Customs, amend Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse
(a-FRaI-d) to Foreign Relations (FR-ee), change the name of the Court
of International of the United States (COITUS) to Customs Court (CC). To terminate financing the Israeli/Egyptian US military
finance race, to cease obstructing Palestinian statehood, to purchase a quota
from an Afghan Opium Agency, to terminate all international offices of the DEA,
to hold NATO and UN peacekeeping mission war profiteers accountable for their
crimes, to
terminate the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Haiti,
to expel the prosecutors from the Hague, to pass the European Constitution or
repeal the European prosecutor to protect the global economy against further
military coup under Monroe doctrine non-entanglement in European colonial
affairs.
Furthermore, it is resolved to set down the General of the United Nations
(GUN), elect a Secretary of the UN (SUN), abolish the Permanent Membership to
the Security Council, change ECOSOC to Socio-Economic Administration, General
Assembly to Assembly, Trusteeship to Human Rights
Council and establish an International Tax Administration by ratifying the
United Nations Charter Legitimate Edition (UNCLE)…674