Interviewer: So when you say, Doctor,
there's no money in curing disease, pharmacies . . . pharmaceuticals, do
they perpetuate disease then, in your opinion?
Dr.
Michael D. Farley: In everything I've seen, in all the autopsies I've
done - and I've done several, more than I can count of cancer patients -
not one of them died of cancer. Quote, "Cancer."
Interviewer: Mm-hmm.
Dr.
Michael D. Farley: They died of liver failure. They died of cardiac
failure, renal failure all due to chemotherapy. I remember I had an
internist and a hospitalist as one of my students, and she studied with
me for about seven months, eight months. And we got a patient that had
been through chemo and radiation, and they had cooked her liver and
cooked her kidneys. Her father had been a surgeon that had switched to
psychiatry, and he called me up and he says, "Anything you can do for my
daughter?"
Interviewer: Mm.
Dr.
Michael D. Farley: And we looked at the blood work and realized she had
no organ function, to speak of, left. And I said, "We can make her more
comfortable, but the radiation treatment that they used on her has
actually destroyed her organs." And so we did what we could.
She'd
been given three weeks. We gave her six months, and she got time to say
good-bye to her family. But I remember walking into the office the
morning after she'd passed, and this internist was sitting on the
waiting room couch. We hadn't opened yet. And I said, "What's the
problem?" And she looked at me and she said, "I'm doing the death
certificate and I don't know what to write for cause of death." I said,
"You might try writing the truth for a change." And she looked at me and
said, "You know how much trouble I can get in by doing that." I said,
"If you're going to study with me, you're going to write the truth. If
not, go on home."
Interviewer: Mm.
Dr.
Michael D. Farley: And she wrote, "Radiation poisoning, cause of
death." She's the only doctor I've ever seen do that. She actually had
the courage to tell the truth. Gosh forbid that you should ever change a
cause of death at a University hospital when you're doing autopsies.
That will get you out of pathology faster than you can blink.