This autobiography tells the intricate and personal story one doctor's path through medical school and out into academia, specialty medicine, and practice, having to conform to the system's standards. Like many doctors, she was on the way to becoming one of the walking dead. Then, one day she realized that policy was harming her patients, and she took a stand. This resulted in hostility and ostracism by the authorities and her peers in the system. In 2011, depressed and deflated, life was difficult in all directions . . . until she found peace through an unexpected path and a new friend. The co-author of Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History brings you her entertaining autobiography, which will surprise you and have you wondering if your own doctor could be inadvertently threatening your health.
Daughter of an MD, I grew up believing in medicine. For most of my life I’ve had an assumed aura of infallibility around the medical profession because it represented my dad—the one all the doctors and nurses in town saw. A healer.
No more.
I like that Dr. Humphries book does not tell you what to think. She opens the mysterious world of medicine and let’s you draw conclusions from her story. The brightest truth you have is your own story. Humphries transparently uncovers troubling realities, deceptive holes she fell into and ones we continue to fall into as we continue in blind trust of the medical/pharmaceutical community.
A calm voice, Suzanne Humphries remains compassionate and urgent in the telling. She advocates for rebirth of the system rather than demolition—she is a catalyst for change working within the system itself. I respect that she is not a critic on the outside.
What was highlighted for me? • Physicians are good willed people being educated to be dispensers of drugs, not healers.
• A half a million dollars or more in debt from schooling, new doctors, by threat of bankruptcy, are coerced to not rock the boat on any level—high patient quotas have become the main force of each day along with the fast prescribing drugs to quell symptoms as the system requires.
• Insurance, threat of lawsuit, and government intervention cause doctors to follow protocol at all cost—even if detrimental to the life and health of the patient. Physicians have no time to evaluate alternatives. They are discouraged from doing so. Precedent rules the day no matter how damning the evidence.
• Doctors who hoped to be healers are utterly disillusioned. Approximately 400 such doctors commit suicide each year. Humphries contends that this speaks loudly to the fact that most doctors enter the field caring deeply about people and wanting to be a healer. Indeed. This goes well beyond their oath to patients to “Do no harm.
• In a one-size-fits all system we, like Dr. Humphries, are left to educate ourselves, take a stand, and demand answers.
My dad is 95. He shakes his head and says the golden age of medicine was before insurance. Money—it has changed everything. Indeed. Read this book. It is an eye-opener.
After becoming increasingly concerned by people's glazed-over assumptions that doctors are infallible, and we must accept and do everything that we are told in the medical field, that human bodies are born broken and need to be fixed, and that any illness is an immediate requirement to get to a doctor's office and fast--I felt this book would unlock some of the great mysteries of life. And it did. This is a fascinating book! Anyone and everyone should read it and have their eyes "further" opened, as I have. This book has provided my IQ with a little upgrade. Dr. Humphries is not only intellectually superior, she is a great writer too, and has made something which easily appears complex and complicated, in to something easy to explain and even understand. If you always wanted to be a doctor, like I have, you will especially enjoy this book.
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. Dr. Humphries focuses this lens on doctors in today's medical field.
I have to admit I've not had a lot of compassion for doctors as over the years I have observed their use of power, influence, and money. I've been poorly treated by several. However, reading Dr. Humphries' book gave me critical insight. I have a new picture into what controls and even enslaves doctors' decisions.
In medical school, students are fed a firehose of information and expected to memorize at breakneck speed. Questions are not encouraged, especially not questions that challenge the pharmaceutical monopoly on treatment. Then, upon graduation, doctors enter the field lugging a half a million dollars debt or more. By threat of bankruptcy they are coerced to not rock the boat. The result is the practice of prescribing drugs to quell symptoms and file as many patients in and out as possible in a day. They are highly trained technicians prescribing as they have been trained. Even when they see drugs that do not help or worsen a condition they have little or no time to actually investigate alternatives. It is an endless treadmill of prescribing. Only treat the symptom (or drug side-effect) as the system demands.
In the end many doctors (who hoped to be healers) end up disillusioned. Approximately 400 doctors commit suicide each year. This speaks loudly to the fact that most people who enter medicine care deeply about people and want to help heal them. I, however, am shocked. These doctors left medical school with their hands bound.
Having read Dr. Humphries' story, I will be both harder and easier on doctors. I will question far more recommendations but with far more kindness. I am less afraid to research my own options and more confident partnering with doctors who will take the courageous step to question the system.
Because I have read "Dissolving Illusions" and listened to every YouTube presentation this author has posted, I hesitated buying this book. I thought the book would be redundant. Wrong!
Read it when you have nothing else to do because it is very difficult to put down. The disenchantment with the antics of the medical community is not new info to me. She echoes, validates, and expounds upon, in most interesting detail, these disenchanted thoughts of mine!
Her brilliance, determination, and bravery allowed her to overcome more obstacles than most of us have ever even considered. The openness and introspection in this book are humbling. Despite demonstrating fiscal responsibility throughout her life, she was able to turn her back on the 'silver coins' and follow her path. This demonstration of grounded reality empowers the reader.
Because I consider religion and spirituality to be separate; religion to me is only means to spirituality. It seemed that her conversion determined that other paths to spirituality are dangerous or inferior. False prophets are ubiquitous.
The sobering reality of the medical and scientific community malfeasance could leave the reader with a sense of hopelessness. However, her perspective on the future of healthcare spurs us to do our part to make this a reality.
Despite making several claims that vaccines, antibiotics and apparently most of modern medicine is bad for us, Suzanne never cites and science or indeed scientific literature to back up her views... I wonder why that is? She is even given the chance to conduct studies to on the so-called negative effects of vaccines but turns down the offer... I wonder why? Although she is a doctor (which would indicate a higher than average ability to conduct critical analysis), she also believes all the stories in the Old Testament to be factually correct.
To put simply, this book tries to scare people about modern medicine but doesn’t actually have a shred of proof OR substantiated fact to support anything of her claims.
I've followed Dr. Humphries work for a couple of years now. I've always perceived her as brilliant and sincere, but I was surprised by just what an interesting life and character she is! I appreciated her transparency and following her spiritual journey as she grew as a person and physician. At the same time I learned so much about how I need to continue to think more broadly about health and medical care. This book is absolutely worth the read.
Love Suzanne Humphries. Dissolving Illusions gave me such confidence in an alternative of our traditional medical system which was harming more than helping. Loved reading this one about her personal journey, and how she got where she is.
“What does it take to get a parent to wake up? Usually, being caught in the wake of desecration; caused by the ‘gold standard medicine’, which totally fails them or their children.” -Suzanne Humphries
This is a followup to "Dissolving Illusions", Suzanne Humphries previous book in which she lays out her antivaccine views.
"Rising From The Dead" builds on Humphries' antivax ideology. In the book's introduction, she attacks measles vaccine because of its "failure" to completely eradicate the disease (the fact that case incidence fell precipitously after the vaccine's introduction, eliminating hundreds of annual childhood deaths and many thousands more cases of long-term and permanent complications of measles, does not impress Humphries).
The remainder of the book includes autobiographical details, leading up to her first major professional disillusionment when, as a nephrologist, she decided that vaccination (in particular flu shots) had caused kidney failure in several of her patients. Never mind that vaccination has never been shown to cause this problem, which can result from a variety of causes including genetic predisposition - Humphries got it in her head that it _had_ to be vaccines, and became upset and indignant when the lack of evidence for her claims was explained to her and her hospital refused to reject vaccination. This led to a personal crisis in which she ultimately left evidence-based medical care, espoused homeopathy (the idea that "magic" water cures disease) and found Jesus. There's a whole lot of detail about Humphries' conversion and new-found religious beliefs which may or may not appeal to readers.
Since then Humphries has become an author and private consultant, railing against what she calls "reductionist" and "blinkered" health care policy such as best practice guidelines. You see, physicians should ignore what experts in their fields recommend and instead go on instinct and personal conviction, like Humphries' conclusion that vaccines damage "God's" immune system.
Humphries makes a big deal out of physicians supposedly having a higher suicide rate than other professions (a controversial view based on incomplete and disputed statistics). It's nice that she feels happier having rejected the principles of her former profession and embraced quackery. What's depressing is that she wants other doctors to follow her misguided path.
Humphries is insane, and this piece of fireplace fuel is just another proof. He grasp on reality is as nonexistent as her understanding of scientific studies. Clearly she got her medical degree from remembering what the books said, and not from understanding it. Now a homeopath (proven by science to be utter quack, btw) and anti-vaxer, she's fooling thousands of people into an increasingly dangerous society where more and more people die from vaccine preventable diseases. This book is almost as worthless as its author.
People like her is the reason kids are dying from measles again - an easily preventable disease thanks to vaccines. So if you support this garbage author and her work, congratulations on increasing the number of sick and dying kids. You must be so proud. I suppose you won't be truly happy until we're back in the middle ages again.
I have been following Dr. Humphries for a while. I think she is brilliant and brave. Her story is not an uncommon one. A smart person who pursues medicine only to discover its many shortcomings which would be forgivable where it not for the discipline's complete inability to see it's failings and instead dogmatically defends systems and modes of treatment that no only do not work but can cause real harm. I have been a nurse for 40 years. I have seen up close Western allopathic medicine's arrogance.
This books has a few editing issues but the story is compelling. I have huge respect for Dr. Humphries and the courage it has taken to challenge the system. I highly recommend this bookif you are interested in looking beneath the surface of medical education and what it means to practice medicine in America.
It’s not just about vaccines. It’s about many parts of the medical establishment. Many appalling, disgusting things. I didn’t trust doctors before reading this book, but now I have even more reason not to trust them. Also contains more evidence of messed up psychiatric facilities where patients are overdrugged and mistreated. I like that the author is objective and a critical thinker. Except when it comes to religion. Since she felt dead inside, she was always searching for something spiritual to erase that feeling. Christianity did it for her, and I guess the feeling of peace was enough to prove to her that it was valid. But as a doctor, she should know that even placebos can make a person feel at peace and cure ailments. Stress suppresses the immune system.
Excellent! As an RN who worked ICU/CCU and MUCH later became “vaccine aware”, I found this book more enlightening, and it also raised frustration and anger inside of me at what our “ Medical education” has done not only to the ppl wanting to go into medicine to wanting to alleviate suffering ...and the total system is corrupt by Big Pharma and the fact Rockefeller’s infiltrated out Medical Education system back in the 1930’s to what it is today...It is sad, frightening and totally corrupt and I have deep gratitude and awe at Dr. Susan Humphries for standing up for truth when many DO NOT!!!!
See the above as I stated what I had hope to in the opening statement...and America the world need to WAKE UP!!!!!
This is honestly one of the best books I've read in a long time. It very much feels like the current being pulled back on the wizard (wizard of oz references). The deep levels of honesty about the medical establishment, starting with school, going all the way to head of a department in a hospital. The book is brutally honest, with both the situations around the author, and the author with her self. The spiritual aspect of this book greatly surprised me, but it brought tears to my eyes while reading. Highly recommend this book to anyone who just wants an interesting read that is very informative.
The writing isn't great, but it is a great book. Dr. Humphries is a true healer, who woke up to the profit agenda of the medical industry. Thank god there is someone like her out there. What is truly shocking, but not surprising, is that there just isn't very much plain old common sense in the medical industry. Then again, what does commons sense have to do with industry. I've edited this to five stars as the religious part of the book does not bother me, nor does any type of spirituality in this time we live in. It is necessary and the only real tool we have to fight against what is coming.
Enlightening book on a medical doctor's experience on doing the best for her patients, yet hitting obstacle after obstacle. Kudos to her for standing up for what she believes in against the mind controlled medical establishment that promotes vaccines as the cure all and end all.
However as a shamanic practitioner I was disappointed to find she studied shamanism for 10 years with a teacher who clearly was compromised. She realized this eventually but now shuns shamanism for Christianity. 1) never just study with one teacher and make him your guru, study under many teachers 2) the miracles she experiences with Jesus would have actually occurred with any higher vibrational being, like mother Mary, angels or even Kuan yin for example. Miracles are not limited to just Jesus...
The book is written in engaging first-person narration that emanates courage, honesty, and commitment to the author’s profession of saving lives. The metaphor of rising from the dead is applied convincingly to illustrate how “gold standards” applied across medical facilities stifle real professionalism in doctors and reduce them to automatons resistant to learning and independent thought. The result is more patients left dead or injured with scars for life than saved.
This book is well written and presents ideas, thoughts and conclusions in a clear and logical way. I found it to be inspiring and empowering. I was a firm believer in vaccinations, but this book has opened my eyes to the possible reasons for conditions I observe in my children. With prayer and understanding that God is our healer and He placed in scripture instructions to overcome sickness, I am confident that my family and I will live full, healthy and long lives.
And scary! I was absolutely glued to this book and finished it in a day! First, I would truly give ANYTHING to have Dr. Humphries be our family doctor. I'm over 60 and take many meds for chronic high UP but worse, I have 3 young grandchildren that live in California...where in a few years they CANNOT ATTEND SCHOOL without being "fully vaccinated" !!!!!!!!! I am honestly terrified. Thank you dr. Humphries for your bravery and for keeping up the fight!
An interesting read about a brilliant and brave doctor
I love Dr. Humphries' first book, Dissolving Illusions, and I loved reading about her powerful and inspiring journey in this book. It read like a novel. I place this doctor among those I consider to be heroes in these days of corruption, cover-ups and lies.
Such valuable inside information about how the medical system really works and the mindset of doctors when you walk through their door. To learn that everything you've been taught is for the profit of someone else, not for the healing of the patient, is a horrific revelation that requires a good deal of soul-searching to come to terms with how to move forward.
The only reason this book did not receive 5 stars was that the writing style wasn't perfect. Just some problems with flow between paragraphs, use of commas, a little repetition of stories. Minor stuff, really. I have a profound respect for Suzanne Humphries and her work, her courage, integrity, and true grit. I only hope I can be like her and stand up for what's right no matter what consequences may come.
Inspiring story of the life of someone I highly admire. Suzanne Humphries is a true hero and her life is a testament of God's grace and purpose and ultimate plan for this He loves and has called. Especially interesting read for those involved in the medical field and/or obstetrics.
This is an astoundingly, excellently written piece of science with soul and spirit thoroughly intertwined. I learned so much! Thank you Suzanne for writing this informative yet vulnerable book. I could not put it down!!!!
Everyone should read and start questioning their own medical choices! I, myself, am trying to turn around my own medical problems to more of the holistic way!
Wow. An amazing look behind the scenes of this nephrologist's journey from med school to private practice, plus many other aspects of her life. Some of the info was no surprise (but still sad to find my suspicions confirmed) and other info was downright shocking. A must read!
the information is this book is great, but the execution of it is not. she runs herself in circles and repeats the same thing over and over. only half of this book is necessary information-wise. it was excruciating to get through at some points.
Dr Humphries has documented important medical findings that everyone should read. Her insight is invaluable. She is brave to expose her colleagues blatant disregard for patient needs