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KIDNEY DISEASE, ORGAN TRANSPLANTS AND DIALYSIS

ARSL PAGES 6, 10

ARSL 2nd Edition Pages 6, 7, 11

The N.Z. Health Service should be investigating the reason for the high incidence of kidney disease, and the reason for the massive number of diseased organs for which ARSL says hundreds of sick people need transplants.  Obviously reasonable approaches to health will never take place whilst enormous sums of money are poured into mechanistic, experimental concepts, which, in the case of transplants are aimed at manipulating the human body and keeping sick people artificially alive, but not in better health.

Dr Herbert Stiller says in Animal Experimentation and Animal Experimenters that today's legal and lethal drug prescription and addiction is directly responsible for putting many patients on the waiting list for transplants.  In the same book Dr Kisker K. P. Mediziner in der Kritik, Stuttgart 1973 says:

"Far too little known is the fact that persons with transplanted organs are up to 140 times more susceptible to cancer than comparable groups of people of the same age - not to mention their enormous susceptibility to infection and to damage to the blood, bones, brains and the retina.  In addition, every transplanted organ fails within a short time in the same way as that which has been removed."

Dr Peter Schmidsberger, Medical Correspondent, Bund, No. 50 (one of Germany's major weeklies) wrote:

"Painkillers must be held responsible for about fifty percent of kidney transplants."

Meanwhile, as children starve to death, in New Zealand a heart and lung transplant costs an estimated $250,000.  A liver transplant costs $50,000 if performed here, approximately $150,000 if the patient goes overseas.  The State of Oregon, U.S.A. has imposed a blanket ban on all transplants because of spiralling costs and in the State of Victoria, Aust., late last year two big hospitals warned they would have to turn patients away because of the financial strain organ transplants are placing on their health service.
(Dominion, February 19 1991.)

Like transplants the cost of dialysis "treatment" is exorbitant.  The prime cause of kidney disease today is the regular ingestion of painkillers/analgesics.  As with all diseases, time, money and intelligence must be spent on prevention...

In Hamburg, Germany in 1968 medical students made their criticism of experimental organ transplants public by writing:

"Here is a science which consciously plans the destruction of the human subject of the experiment as an acceptable consequence."

It is clear, from all the evidence, that organ transplants, are, from the economical and practical viewpoint, an indictment of the erroneous direction and goal of modern orthodox medicine - which is based on the experimental laboratory rather than the study of the human being.

Many of today's doctors are openly voicing their fear that the increase in vivisection (which is the cornerstone of today's medicine) goes hand in hand with the deterioration of health, resulting in the clamour for transplants, which they say are both physically and financially impractical.  But for the lucrative biomedical researchers (vivisectors) education, prevention and fundamental medical care are ignored in favour of the production of evermore toxic poisons which worsen the patient's condition.

• "The hope of giving heart victims spare parts has run up against some harsh biological facts.  The operation is impractical because it can easily cost $300,000 a patient and produce no more than one or two years of extra life.  People must accept that they bear the biggest responsibility for preventing heart disease.  Changes in lifestyle would save more lives than all the scientists, surgeons and hospitals in the country."
  (Dr John Callaghan, Chief of Chest and Heart Surgery at Edmonton's University Hospital, Canada, Lethbridge Herald, February 11 1981.)

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• "Consultants sanctimoniously select one in every five Englishmen who are afflicted with kidney failure and condition him to desire the scarce privilege of dying in protracted torture on dialysis.  Much time and effort during the treatment is used in prevention of suicide during the first and sometimes second year that the artificial kidney may add to the lives of the patients."
  (Ivan Illich, Medical Nemesis, later titled Limits to Medicine.)

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• "No doctor, however experienced, can balance precisely the expected period of survival without transplant against the period of the apparent acceptance of the transplant before it is finally rejected.  I am far from convinced that this state of affairs is any more tolerable to the patient than the disease for which the transplant was done.  The public should know that transplant surgery never cures the original disease and never makes the recipient a healthy person.  All transplant surgery is a confession of failure, of unsuccessful early diagnosis and treatment."
  (Dr M. H. Pappworth, eminent London physician and internationally-known teacher of clinical medicine, Human Guinea-Pigs, Pelican Books, 1969.)

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• "Results from animal experiments in the 1960s suggested that there might be important advances in transplantation and there-by prompted a large amount of further research into heart and kidney transplants in rats.  But tissue differences between humans and rats proved that animal experiments were once again misleading.  The encouraging results had raised hopes that a major advance in clinical immunosuppression for transplantation was in the offing, but these hopes have now faded and nothing of the great mass of work has been translated into clinical practice."
  (John Fabre of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Surgery, Transplantation, Vol. 34, 1982, pages 223-234.)

Refer also to Chapter 10 Heart Surgery.

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