Indiana Indian cardiologist a warning case re today's medicine

[Barbara]

While this heart specialist, Dr Arvind Gandhi, was exposed as criminally performing heart procedures which were unnecessary and dangerous for his victims, one wonders how many MORE such cardiologists are undiscovered ?
I would be very careful about choosing the correct physician in any field but particularly a few with high payoffs :

"In recent years, federal officials have brought several prominent cases against cardiologists and hospitals, accusing them of performing unnecessary procedures like inserting stents into coronary arteries. While medical professionals say there is no indication that cardiology has more unnecessary procedures than, say, orthopedics, they do note that the specialty has come under increased scrutiny by regulators because the procedures tend to be reimbursed by Medicare and private insurance at significantly higher levels than those in many other specialties.

“Cardiology, whether we like it or not, is generally a big moneymaker for hospitals,” said Dr. Steven Nissen, chief of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic and the former president of the American College of Cardiology. “We are still a fee-for-service system, and that creates, in my view, misaligned incentives among some physicians to do more procedures and among some institutions, particularly in areas where there is not tight medical supervision, to turn a blind eye and enjoy the high revenue stream.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/busin ... .html?_r=0

Another field where abuses seem to be frequent is oncology. Also in the Mid West, a Detroit specialist, Dr Farid Fata,
was recently convicted of scamming Medicare for a whopping 34 million dollars ! Worse, though, the unrepentant fraudster damaged 553 patients, telling them various falsities about their state of health so that he could collect from Medicare from unncessary chemotherapy and other procedures.

This is why some of us here advocate natural means of healing wherever possible. It is often too dangerous to trust the diagnoses and ethics of allopathic medicine's 'superstars' : those claiming expertise in such high-ticket fields of specialty.

Then there are the ones who are practicing with faked credentials...

What happened to the Holy Unmercenary Physicians, such as Sts Cosmas and Damian ?! Even if charging no money is unrealistic today, asking reasonable fees and not inflating the patient's medical problem in order to extract more money from medical care plans seems a reasonable goal for an honorable physician today.

We need perhaps to ask the intercession of St John Maximovitch, who saved many from a simpler, more innocent type of unnecessary operation. He prayed to God to cure the person, thus rendering the procedure unneeded.
And of course to ask the help of St Panteleimon and other Saints in determining what is best for each individual : should one consult a doctor at all might be the wisest first question to implore help with from God's Saints !
Or would it better if one suspects a cance diagnosis, to obtain holy oil from the Pantanassa Icon of the Mother of God and pray to Her ?

[Maria]

St. Nektarios of Aegina, who fell asleep in the Lord in 1920, just before the imposition of the New Calendar by Freemasons, has been reported as visiting those sick with cancer and miraculously healing them.

I was suffering from a mysterious illness back in 2000 when I was bedridden, weak, and in much abdominal pain. When my doctor wanted to do a cancer screening, I waited and prayed for 40 days before doing the test. I was anointed with the oil from St. Nectarios' Shrine in West Covina, where I attended the Paraclesis in honor of St. Nectarios. After 40 days of prayer and fasting, then I went in for the AMAS blood test, and results came back with a score of 99. High enough so that my doctor knew that I had been suffering with cancer, over 50, but low enough that I did not need further intervention. If I had scored 100, just one point higher, then I would have had to repeat the test, and if confirmed to be 100 or over, then I would have been sent for further procedures including surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.

[Barbara]

Oh my goodness ! You WERE suffering with that illness, did you say, because your result was over 50 ?
I have never heard of any of this testing and scoring procedures.

Is that right ?? But you think that the 40 days plus the attendance at the moleben for St Nektarios reduced the number
just enough so that you would not be prescribed any further treatment ?

That's incredible, Maria ! Was it a stomach cance, then, do you presume ?
Did it go away entirely since then ?

I did not hear of this part of St Nektarios' life : about his healings of people. I remembered the stance he took for the Old Calendar and the persecution he endured. Was it entirely because of the Old Calendar question, or I thought it was also jealousy of him by other contemporary hierarchs ?

[Maria]

Oh my goodness ! You WERE suffering with that illness, did you say, because your result was over 50 ?
I have never heard of any of this testing and scoring procedures.

Is that right ?? But you think that the 40 days plus the attendance at the moleben for St Nektarios reduced the number
just enough so that you would not be prescribed any further treatment ?

That's incredible, Maria ! Was it a stomach cance, then, do you presume ?
Did it go away entirely since then ?

I did not hear of this part of St Nektarios' life : about his healings of people. I remembered the stance he took for the Old Calendar and the persecution he endured. Was it entirely because of the Old Calendar question, or I thought it was also jealousy of him by other contemporary hierarchs ?

St. Nektarios worked many miracles while he was still living. You would have to read one of the two autobiographies. And yes, he was persecuted politically and spiritually. Remember that freemasonry was rampant among Greek clergy.

The cancer involved my left kidney. After I had prayed and fasted for 40 days while bedridden, I went in for the AMAS test, and the results came back barely passing, by one point. So the doctor declared that I was now in remission. During that 40 days, when I was able, I attended one or two of the holy services to St. Nektarios, where I was anointed by the priest and venerated his rib.

[Barbara]

Oh NO ! A kidney ? That is terrible. I am sorry that I didn't see this. I looked at the Sun post which has been at the top of this forum. I realized I better check the thread tonight, since I was waiting for your answer.

When you say 'fasted', do you mean NO food or Lenten food ?

So is it OK now ? Did it gradually get better ? Did you have any recurrences of the problems ?
Was it in the early part of that year that all this that you related occurred ? Not a pleasant way to see in the Millenium.

As for St Nectarios, yes, I did read one of the biographies. But I have to admit, it's been so long that i remember almost nothing except his title was "of the Pentapolis" which is in modern Libya - and that somehow the other Greek hierarchs were crazy with jealousy of him. Partly for having that see, I suppose it was ?

And you are right about the ever-horrible threat past and present from Masons.