by M. L. Kiser

Created on: May 14, 2009   Last Updated: January 19, 2010

What a wonderful world it would be if you could completely trust your doctors.  It would be like entering paradise every time you needed medical assistance or treatment, to go and see the trustworthy healer.  But, we live in a very deceitful world where doctors, as well as, the rest of us, do not always have all of the answers. 

Doctors, being human, often make mistakes like the rest of us; some even are greedy enough to lie about it; others simply are deceived by their training or pharmaceutical companies or some other all-controlling entity like the FDA.

Having worked in a hospital for 11 years, I never trust anything my doctor tells me at first, I will read, research and talk to people who have experienced the same as I have before I even begin to trust what the doctor has told me.  I will seek out alternatives and speak with people who have had success with them in order to avoid serious or fatal side effects.

I have seen things that would easily convince almost anyone not to go into a hospital and the filth that hospitals contain is enough to make even the sickest person risk death rather than to even enter a hospital. 

Hospitals at educational facilities are even worse.  They are often entities unto themselves and control their own environment, thereby, not strictly adhering to federal and state regulations.  I worked at one where there were cockroaches everywhere and they often used condemned indoor incinerators despite the law. 

One where I worked would often have strange smells, hazes or fogs with no odors, even the occasional smell of burning rubber of human body parts would permeate our office.  We would often be told by those checking the air with their meters, that there was “nothing wrong with the air,” despite the visually obvious fog.  I distinctly recall being told this when a grey fog hung in the air so thick that we had two fans on, blowing the fog back out into the hallway just to get it out of our office.

Doctors, all too often, either deny or just don't tell you what dangers lurk in hospitals or clinics, much less their own offices!  I can't begin to recall the number of times that I have seen medical employees use the bathroom and not wash their hands; it's sickening and often responsible for many types of staph inflections!

One night as I worked the 3rd shift, I overheard a professor telling one of his students: “Don't worry, my personal opinion is that

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