Prescription for a Sick Nation

By Ollie Fisher DMD FICD FACD

Have you ever had second thoughts about allowing your child to be vaccinated? There are numerous conflicting arguments about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines. Dr. Fisher points out the pros and the cons of vaccines to assist parents in making an informed decision.
With the global spread of Covid-19 there will be pressure for schools and businesses to require mandatory vaccines. This book demonstrates that your decision should not be taken lightly. While vaccines for diseases brought to the America’s like smallpox, measles, and polio were for the most part effective, many were tainted with toxins or medications to control population.
This book also points out that our government in cooperation with many renowned medical institutions injected victims with syphilis, gassed soldiers of color, and tested chemicals on minority communities without their consent or knowledge. This gives me pause when considering current claims of vaccine safety by our government and medical community.
I encourage you to read this book. Knowledge is power. The better informed you are, the better the decision you will make for your family.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664124752

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CONTENTS

Dedication

About the Author

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1 Health Injustice

Chapter 2 Money + Marketing = Modern Medicine

Chapter 3 Vaccines, a Jab Well Done?

Chapter 4 The Model Health Care System?

Chapter 5 Cultural Practices and Health

Chapter 6 Environmental Threats to Health

Chapter 7 Power and Privilege

Chapter 8 The Way Forward

Appendix 1 World Health Organization Health Rankings 2000

Appendix 2 Common Endocrine Disrupter Chemicals1

Appendix 3 FDA Approved Drugs Removed from the Market1

Appendix 4 Effective Health Maintenance Habits

Appendix 5 Ingredients in Common Products

Appendix 6 Common Food & Body Care Additives

DEDICATION

I am truly blessed to have had many great teachers in my life. First and foremost is H.E. Ben Ammi who taught me spirituality and discernment, Dr. Alphonso Trottman who mentored me and provided my first internship, Dr. Michael Railey who demonstrated how to maintain one’s values amid numerous personal challenges, and Dr. Kevin Walsh who showed me caring, compassion, and the love a brother. This book is dedicated to these great men.

I must also dedicate this book to my children who spent much of their childhood without the consistent presence of their father. While I was working to make a living, they managed to develop into outstanding men and women despite my frequent absences.

Finally, I dedicate this book to my awesome wife Malkah (Perdita) who has always supported me, even when she failed to see my vision. She has provided counsel, love, kindness, and understanding to me for over 42 years. For this and more, I am eternally grateful.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Ollie Fisher, DMD, FICD, FACD, FPFA

Dr. Fisher is a native of St. Louis, Missouri. He attended St. Louis Public Schools from K-12. Upon graduation from Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. Fisher worked as a Chemical Engineer for the Monsanto Company prior to returning to Washington University to receive his Doctorate in Dental Medicine.

He served as Dental Director for St. Louis Comprehensive Health Center, and later spent more than three decades in private dental practice.

Dr. Fisher was appointed to the Board of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services by Governor Carnahan and served under Governors Holden and Blunt.

He is a past president of the Greater St. Louis Dental Society, American Dental Association Delegate, and Missouri Dental Association Delegate.

Dr. Fisher is a retired Navy Captain and a decorated veteran of the Gulf War. He has served on numerous charitable boards including the HealthWorks Kids Museum, the United Way of St. Louis, Give Kids A Smile, Support-A-Child, and Better Family Life.

He currently works part-time with Gateway to Oral Health Foundation, a mobile children’s dental clinic, and is developing an organic farm and teaching facility in Belize Central America. Dr. Fisher may be contacted through his charity, Ghan Eden Agriculture & Ecology Enterprise at, www.ghanedenaee.org.

FOREWORD

While there are many books which address health issues, most suffer from a serious flaw. Either they (a) address social factors while neglecting what readers can do individually; or, more often (b) they pretend that all responsibility rests on the individual while overlooking how society traps people into making bad decisions. Ollie Fisher’s Prescription for a Sick Nation does not suffer from either error. The book beautifully weaves personal decisions into social forces and describes how solutions must address both simultaneously.

I really cannot remember when I first met Ollie Fisher because our lives have intersected at so many points: personal discussions about health, panels on the dangers of genetically modified organisms, the Green Time TV show I once hosted, and events on healthy food options, to name a few. Ollie’s book taught me several things I was unaware of like how most Americans receive little preventive care, the Rockefellers’ role in the promotion of heroic medicine, and the way high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) leads to overeating by failing to signal fullness to the brain.

One of the many issues this book covers is racism as a social issue. People of color, not just in the United States but around the world, suffer the ills of bad food and chemical poisons from the air, water, and ground. Stress interferes with immune system functioning, making the body more susceptible to a host of diseases, including asthma, infectious diseases, coronary artery disease, and some cancers. Racial minorities in the US are subjected to lower wages, fewer assets, greater risk of losing their jobs, poor medical coverage, and living in distressed communities. The combined effects of these stressors lead to an impaired immune system. A compromised immune system increases the likelihood of disease and can result in financial disaster and bankruptcy. Consequently, the cycle continues.

One factor contributing to emotional problems in low income communities is the lack of green spaces. Several excellent studies show that a walk in the park is as soothing as taking a dose of a Ritalin-type drug, which is typically used to sedate children. By introducing medications to children, drug companies potentially create lifelong customers who seek to solve problems with pills later in life.

While many writers on health care focus on individual actions, Prescription for a Sick Nation is not at all bashful about identifying corporate domination as a major culprit. It points out the overproduction of junk food as an enormous health disaster, corporate greed=illness. As the author so perceptibly states, Capitalism has become a cancer within the health care system…….Profit always seems to come before the health and safety of people.

Since World War II the world has been flooded with chemical toxins. Tons of these chemicals are routinely dumped into the environment without adequate studies on health risks. In short, chemical companies are playing with the lives of humans and all other species while having little or no knowledge of the harm they can be causing.

I love the way Ollie Fisher compares the cost and effectiveness of US medicine to that in Cuba and Canada, which have more relevance to America than do health systems in Europe. The book emphasizes that the US should learn from Cuba, take what works best, and not worry about the rest. This is exactly what Cuba did as its design for health care unfolded. Since nearly half of Cuba’s doctors fled the island following the 1959 revolution, it became necessary to design a system that relied less on treatment and more on prevention. By far the most important aspect was the formation of doctor-nurse teams embedded within neighborhoods. The decentralizing of health care became the most remarkable innovation of the Cuban health care system.

Perhaps what I enjoy most about Prescription for a Sick Nation is the way it presents holistic medicine. Though health-care-for- all was a key tenant of the revolution, it was not dealt with in isolation. Health care was part of a comprehensive approach that included construction of clinics, campaigns for literacy, housing, sanitation, pay for rural workers, roads, anti-racism, and gender equality.

Long before Covid-19 hit, Cuba had established the interconnections between components of its health care system which prepared it well to cope with the pandemic. The effectiveness of this approach meant that on July 21, 2020, Cuba had experienced 87 Covid-19 deaths while the US had seen 140,300. Though the US population is only 30 times that of Cuba, it had 1613 times as many deaths.

Another aspect of a successful health care model is that it does not separate real medicine from alternative medicine. The wisdom of traditional healers and family traditions that have worked for generations must be considered. Finally, the Cuban healers go to the people to discover their needs and ensure they are provided for. This runs counter to the US system that concentrates sick people in hospitals thereby exposing many others to potentially contagious diseases. This must become a central part of reimagining health care in the US.

Don Fitz

Author of Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution

INTRODUCTION

Shortly after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in August 1990, my unit was placed on alert. This was the beginning of what would become Desert Shield/Desert Storm. In November 1990, our Fleet Hospital unit received orders to deploy. The initial phase of the operation included pre-deployment training at Fort Dix, prior to being flown into the Iraqi theater.

We left America with a sense of pride, and bravery, but also fear of the unknown, and gravitas. We were advised that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction and would probably use chemical weapons against us. We knew the wearing of chemical and biological protective equipment in this hostile environment would greatly complicate our efforts. As a further precaution, we were injected with a myriad of chemicals to prepare us for potential chemical or biological threats.

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