Owen,
Thanks for information. Unfortunately they only went with 3grams/day treatment. The doctor discounted the recent Vitamin C/Pneumonia case from New Zealand as an outlier and a one time event...I think some doctors are so 'smart' they are dumb. They are become beholden to "The Standard of Care" and are deathly afraid of deviate from it one iota. I understand they need a regimen to follow but to intentionally inhibit the healing powers of the body, to work against the body, is not wise. The infectious disease doc I spoke with last night said he will not attribute my mother-in-laws recovery (he said IF she recovers) to vitamin C. Are we so blind as to not see that in partnership with the body medical doctors can change the IF to WHEN she recovers? In response I wrote this open letter to doctors to modify the standard of care:
Ideal Care: Doctors Partnering with the Patient’s Biological Systems
Drugs, antibiotics, monitoring devices, breathing apparatuses and other instruments are medical practitioner’s tools for healing. However the medical doctor isn't the only one working on the body. The body itself is also trying to heal, restore systems and fight for its own life. It has its own tools, different tools than the medical practitioner. I'd offer that a step forward in today's current medical care would be the doctor working in partnership with the human body as the body actually has better internal monitoring than our best diagnostic devices. Ideally the patient is best served when the doctor is equipped with the tools he needs to work and the body is equipped with the tools it needs to heal and both are allowed to do their job without interference. The tools of the body are different than the practitioner’s medical tools. The body uses things like Vitamin C, Potassium, Magnesium, Vitamin A, Vitamin D, Vitamin E, Zinc and other vitamins and minerals which the body utilizes to mobilize life functions. These life functions are not 100% understood except without them none of us would remain alive for long. The built-in intelligence within the body’s own systems has access to pieces of diagnostic information we do not and is able to apply its own tools in such a way we do not totally understand but the result is for healing. Therefore the patient is best served by empowering those systems to also do their job. The current standard of care, for the most part, ignores the body’s internal healing mechanisms which are at work or at least attempting to work for the same goal as the medical practitioner. Patient care and outcomes would take a leap forward if doctors would partner with the intelligent systems of the human body and if both would be unfettered to work for the same goal.
I propose that the current standard of care be amended to empower the body’s innate healing ability. We know patient outcomes are improved with vitamins and minerals, especially Vitamin C, being administered at to every patient who is post-op, fighting infectious disease, with bed sores, or any other respiratory or pulmonary distress. Empowering the body’s critical healing mechanisms with vitamins and minerals makes sense and does not conflict with any drug or medicine in the standard of care. So together, empowering the body’s intelligent systems to promote healing and current standard of care, we’ll see better patient outcomes and faster recovery times.
I would like to hear from others as to what standard of care should vitamin C be administrated and for which conditions and include research so any doctor reading this posting will feel comfortable enough to implement the therapy.
Thanks,
Mike
My understanding, probably incomplete, is as long as doctor follow the "standard of care" they have legal protection, but if the deviate, the open themselves to all sorts of liability. (I wonder where these laws came from?).
It is a community standard is local and can be changed - would take a retired attorney or a millionaire - in each jurisdiction. Plus there has to be scientific studies, which medicine avoids, if the study could affect some economic incentive already in place, etc.
Levy has pinpointed the problem to the two standard medical textbooks - which ignored vitamin C when the science was fresh, and once the year passes and doesn't make it into the text, it never will.
In your mother-in-law's case, if she regains consciousness - try the 5 Lypo-C at one time, perhaps 2 or 3 times a day... And there is also Lypo-GSH that works miracles (if Livon has it in stock)
Owen R. Fonorow
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