Western Medicine
Western Medicine
How the Rockefellers Created
the Business of Western Medicine
Alternative medicine practitioners have a lot of conversations with their patients who are disenchanted with the current Western medicine system. This disenchantment is both related to the quality of care they receive and also the way in which the business of Western medicine is conducted. Here are the origins of our current medical business model.
The business story of Western medicine, in the modern sense, starts with John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937), widely considered the wealthiest American of all time. He is most famous for securing a monopoly in America’s oil market, but there is more …
By the turn on the 20th century, Rockefeller controlled 90% of all petroleum refineries in the America through ownership of the Standard Oil Corporation (later split into Mobil, Chevron, Exxon, etc.) Concurrently, around 1900, the world of science was getting excited about the new “petrochemicals”, and the ability to create a variety of new of compounds from oil, such as plastics, but organic chemists knew that oil had the potential to create far more than plastic bags.
During this same era, scientists were doing ground breaking work to understand the basic mechanics of life and human health. It was during this time that most of the essential vitamins were discovered, including B1, B2, Biotin, Vitamin C, Vitamin A, Vitamin D, etc.
By identifying these vitamins, science took a huge step forward and enabled simple vitamin remedies to cure conditions that were caused by vitamin deficiencies, such as scurvy and rickets. However, scientists were also involved in research to re-create synthetic versions of these vitamins in a laboratory. In 1935, Vitamin C became the first vitamin to be artificially synthesized in Switzerland.
Rockefeller was smart enough to see this as a big opportunity, with the possibility that vitamins and medications could be developed from petroleum. He saw the chance to control and monopolize multiple industries at once: petroleum, chemical and medical. And of course, petrochemicals were ideal from a business perspective because they could be patented, owned and sold for high profits.
But there was a big problem with Rockefeller’s plan. Natural and herbal medicines were very popular in the USA during the early 1900s. Almost one half the medical colleges and doctors were practicing holistic medicine, using extensive knowledge from Europe and Native American traditions. Rockefeller knew that to get total control of the medical industry he would have to expunge the competition.
To start, Rockefeller used his vast oil money to purchase part of the German pharmaceutical company I.G. Farben. (involved in WWII). Now that he controlled a drug manufacturing company, he could move forward with his plan to get rid of the competition.
In the early 1900’s there were a variety of doctors and healing modalities available in the USA. Some of the medical specialties included chiropractic, naturopathy, homeopathy, holistic medicine and herbal medicine. To eliminate the competition, Rockefeller hired a contractor named Abraham Flexner to submit a report to Congress in 1910. This report “concluded” that there were too many doctors and medical schools in America, and that all the natural healing modalities which had existed for hundreds of years were unscientific quackery. The report called for the standardization of medical education, whereby only the AMA (another monopoly) would be allowed to grant medical school licensure in the U.S.A.
Although Flexner’s report had some valid points, the motives for the report were entirely driven my Rockefeller’s desire for complete control of the medical system. Based on the report, congress acted upon Flexner’s recommendations and changed laws related to medical practice. Incredibly, allopathic medicine became the standard modality, even though at the time its main treatment methods where blood-letting, surgery (then quite barbaric), and the injection of toxic heavy metals (lead and mercury) to supposedly “displace disease”!
With these legal changes in place, Rockefeller teamed up with Andrew Carnegie and started funding medical schools all over the USA on the strict condition that they only taught allopathic medicine. Through the power of their huge “grants”, this monopolist team systematically dismantled the previous curricula of these medical schools, removing any mention of the healing power of herbs or natural treatments. Teachings on diet and other natural (non-drug) treatments were also completely removed from the medical programs.
After removing traditional medicine from schools, Rockefeller made sure to secure his monopoly by launching a targeted smear campaign against his competitors. Homeopathy and natural medicines were discredited and demonized through all the media of the time. Some doctors were even jailed for using natural medicine treatments, including treatments that had been used safely and effectively for decades before.
In a very short time span, medical colleges were all homogenized. All the students were taught the same allopathic system, and medicine was now defined as a process of prescribing patented drugs. “A pill for an ill” became the mindset of American medicine.
Rockefeller tried to globalize his control by going into China to spread Western Medicine. Wiping out traditional medicine in America was not enough. He wanted to remove Traditional Chinese Medicine from China! He created the China Medical Board in 1914 and provided a $12 million grant. His goal was to “modernize medical education and to improve the practice of medicine in China”, by starting to build the Peking Union Medical College/Hospital in 1919. Fortunately, they were unable to expand to other locations.
The diligent work of Rockefeller and Carnegie was a smashing “success” in the West. They crushed the underfunded, grassroots competition and created the current medical system, wherein “Big Pharma” makes large “donations” to medical schools in exchange for teaching the medical students to use their patented drugs.
As part of this system, many alternative treatments are criminalized. It is a criminal felony to treat cancer with any modality except chemotherapy, surgery or radiation. Why? Follow the money! An average cost of cancer treatment is $150,000! Also, the American Cancer Society was founded by him in 1913.
Are you surprised that the COST of medical care in the USA is rated #1, yet the QUALITY of its medicine care is rated at #37? Unfortunately, these are the natural effects that occur when the Western medicine system is run like a mega corporation instead of a service to the people.