Why and How Doctors Kill More People than Cancer (2011)

By Dr Vernon Coleman – 40 Q&As – Unbekoming Book Summary

In 1975, a young British doctor named Vernon Coleman published The Medicine Men, a book that dared to expose the unholy alliance between the pharmaceutical industry and medical establishment. Nearly fifty years later, his warnings have proven devastatingly prescient. Coleman documented how doctors had become the third leading cause of death, how prescription drugs killed more people than illegal narcotics, and how one in six hospital patients was there because medical treatment had made them ill. These weren’t the rantings of a conspiracy theorist but meticulously researched findings from someone who had worked as a GP, police surgeon, and hospital doctor, who had given evidence to both Houses of Parliament, and who had successfully campaigned for changes in prescribing laws that the British government acknowledged saved lives.

Yet rather than earning him accolades, his insistence on speaking uncomfortable truths led to his systematic exclusion from mainstream medicine, media, and eventually, during the COVID era, from every major social media platform. The man who had written columns for four national newspapers simultaneously, whose books had sold millions of copies in 26 languages, whose novel had been adapted into a film, found himself labeled “too dangerous” for Facebook’s community before he could even open an account.