How the pharmaceutical industry is ruining our healthcare system

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Lecture by former university professor Dr. Andreas Sönnichsen

We need holistic, biopsychosocial healthcare in order to overcome industrial medicalisation. Medicine is in crisis. The COVID “pandemic” has shown how susceptible people are to propaganda and how easy it is to push through medical measures across the population, even though it has been proven that they do not fulfil their purpose, but serve to enrich lobbyists and their accomplices.

Source: Kritisches-Netzwerk.de

However, the prehistory of COVID begins more than a hundred years ago with the beginnings of the pharmaceutical industry and the chemical synthesis of medicines. In recent decades in particular, the imbalance between patient benefit and profit maximisation has escalated at the cost of harm. The proportion of costs for pharmaceutical products in relation to total healthcare expenditure continues to rise, while we are led to believe that better care, for example, cannot be financed.

A quarter of the population over the age of 60 takes five or more different medications every day. Among the over-80s, half of the population is already affected by this so-called polypharmacy (more than four drugs a day). A common thread running through history is the hasty authorisation of drugs and vaccines due to flawed studies, their widespread marketing and their withdrawal from the market years later.

Side effects are first denied and then hushed up. Only rarely are companies condemned and even more rarely does the general public learn about them. The industry has infiltrated all areas of science, medicine and politics in order to increase its profits without – with a few exceptions – improving health.

Sönnichsen’s lecture highlights the problems of increasing, profit-oriented medicalisation and outlines the path to a new, people-centred healthcare system that, unlike the currently prevailing mechanistic, reductionist repair medicine, relies on personal responsibility, self-healing powers, natural healing methods and an empathic, participatory relationship between the practitioner and the patient. The final word for any medical treatment must always lie with the patient themselves after honest counselling and comprehensive information and never with a patriarchal practitioner, let alone the pharmaceutical industry and its rent-a-mongers or even the state.

► About former university professor Dr Andreas Sönnichsen

Andreas Sönnichsen was born in Hamburg and grew up in Munich. He studied medicine at Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, USA and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.

From 1986-1996, he completed his specialist training at the Großhadern Clinical Centre at LMU Munich and worked scientifically on the prevention of cardiovascular diseases. From 1997-2012, he worked in Munich in his own practice as a GP internist and began scientific work on evidence-based medicine, patient safety, medication safety, GP care and conflicts of interest in medicine.

In 2006, he was appointed Professor of General Medicine at Paracelsus University Salzburg. This was followed by professorships at the University of Witten/Herdecke (2012) and the Medical University of Vienna (2018). In 2013, he was awarded the David Sackett Prize for Evidence-Based Medicine. From 2019-2021, he was Chairman of the German Network for Evidence-based Medicine.

For many years, Andreas Sönnichsen has taken a critical stance on the conflicting interests of medicine, the overmedicalisation of the population and the damage caused by diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive medical measures. As early as March 2020, he expressed his criticism of the coronavirus measures and warned of the collateral damage and possible negative consequences of the hastily and only conditionally approved coronavirus “vaccines”.

He is the author of the textbook “Wissenschaftskompetenz in der Medizin” (Thieme, 1/2022, ISBN 978-3-13-243209-3 >> more(link is external)) and the book “Die Angst- und Lügenpandemie – Ein Beitrag zur Aufarbeitung der Coronakrise” (2/2024, now in its second expanded edition) and has authored over 100 internationally listed specialist publications.

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Since the beginning of the corona crisis in early 2020, science has become ideology and information has become propaganda by governments, public media and most scientific and medical institutions. This book attempts an honest scientific review of the officially available data and study evidence on the SARS-CoV-2 “pandemic”, containment measures and COVID “vaccination”, combined with the personal story of an unflinching critic of the corona narrative.

The second edition includes an update of the scientific data and findings, an additional chapter “On the road to a health dictatorship” and further information on the reappraisal process. Second expanded edition, paperback, 308 pages, ISBN-13: 978-3-75-832497-0, publisher: Books on Demand, publication date: 05.02.2024. Available as a book for €20.00, as an e-book for €14.99. To the reading sample >> more(link is external). To order the book >> more(link is external). To order the e-book >> more(link is external).

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