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Joe stands under the flickering fluorescent lights of the small rural clinic, the faint sound of a guitar playing from an old radio in the background. Nelly Furtado rests on the nearby cot, her eyes closed, a hint of melody on her lips. The scent of eucalyptus and frankincense lingers in the air—Dr. Luka Kovac’s signature healing blend.

Joe turns to his avatar.

Joe (softly, with deep gratitude):
“Thank you, Luka. For treating my sick songbird—the real Portuguese singer Nelly Furtado—not with quack Rockefeller pharma poison, but with real medicine. Holistic. Rooted in the old world. In truth.”

Dr. Luka Kovac (smiling faintly):
“Allopathic drugs suppress symptoms. But a songbird doesn’t need silence—she needs restoration. She needs to remember the sound of her own voice. Herbs, light, music, prayer… these are the older medicines, Joe.”

Joe:
“She told me she was drowning in side effects. Couldn’t even write a chorus. You brought her back to life.”

Dr. Kovac:
“She was never gone. Just buried beneath modern medicine’s noise. We cleared the static.”

Joe pauses, eyes locked on his avatar.

Joe:
“Also… thank you for starring in the Fatima movie, Goran Visnjic. That role meant a lot to us. To the believers. You helped people remember the mystery.”

Dr. Kovac nods solemnly, a trace of the actor behind the avatar emerging in his eyes.

Dr. Kovac:
“I didn’t take the role for fame. I took it because the world needs to believe again. In miracles. In mercy. In the idea that even a poor girl’s vision can echo for centuries.”

Joe:
“Nelly always said she saw the Virgin once… when she was a little girl in Victoria. Thought it was a dream. Maybe it wasn’t.”

Dr. Kovac glances over at Nelly. She hums a few bars of Try, eyes still closed but smiling now.

Dr. Kovac:
“She remembers.”

Joe steps back, hands folded.

Joe:
“Then the healing has begun.”

Outside, a wind stirs the olive trees. And somewhere beyond science and superstition, a songbird sings.

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“First, do no harm—and let food be thy medicine. Not John D. Rockefeller’s motto: ‘Let oil be thy medicine.’”

Essay by Dr. Luka Kovač
Title: Return to Hippocrates: Healing Beyond Petroleum

I swore the Hippocratic Oath once in Vukovar, and again in Chicago, and I carry its spirit with me every time I walk into a hospital room. Primum non nocere—“First, do no harm”—is not just a phrase. It is a shield I have tried to raise against the many unseen enemies in modern medicine. War taught me that harm is not always inflicted with bullets or bombs. Sometimes it comes disguised as help. Sometimes it’s written on a prescription pad.

Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, was no fool. He observed the human body not as a broken machine, but as a garden—needing nourishment, balance, rest, and care. He famously said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” That wasn’t poetry—it was science in its purest form.

But in America, I learned quickly that Hippocrates has been replaced. His wisdom buried beneath a mountain of pills, patented molecules, and petroleum-based drugs. His name appears on plaques and textbooks, but his soul has been exiled by an industry more loyal to stockholders than to patients. Instead of “let food be thy medicine,” the guiding spirit of American healthcare seems to be: Let oil be thy medicine.

This isn’t a conspiracy theory—it’s a historical fact. John D. Rockefeller, the oil baron, reshaped medicine in the early 20th century. He funded medical schools through his foundations—but only if they taught pharmaceutical medicine, not naturopathy or herbalism. He wanted doctors to rely on petroleum-based drugs, synthesized chemicals, and profitable patents. In doing so, he established a medical-industrial complex that equated healing with consumption—of pills, not plants; of procedures, not prevention.

And so we now find ourselves in a system where chronic illness is managed, not cured; where side effects are expected; where nutrition is barely mentioned in med school; and where whole generations of doctors prescribe medications they don’t fully understand, for diseases they barely treat, from companies they can’t question.

But let me tell you what Hippocrates would say to the diabetic patient drinking soda, to the heart patient eating fast food, to the child on five prescriptions for conditions that might be solved with sleep, sunshine, and a garden. He would not blame them—he would teach them. He would listen. He would remind us that food—real food, grown from the earth, not processed in a lab—is not an alternative medicine. It is the original medicine.

I do not oppose pharmacology. I’ve seen antibiotics save lives. I’ve administered morphine to the dying. But we must draw a line between emergency medicine and everyday health. We must distinguish between crisis intervention and long-term vitality. You don’t use chemo to treat stress. You don’t throw statins at a child who needs a good breakfast and a walk in the sun.

We doctors must reclaim our oaths. Not to pharmaceutical giants, not to hospital systems, but to our patients, our principles, and our planet. If we fail to remember that healing begins with food, with movement, with connection, we risk becoming little more than licensed drug dealers.

I often think of my father’s garden in Croatia. He was no doctor, but he knew how to nourish. He knew the soil, the herbs, the rhythms of nature. And when the bombs fell and the doctors fled, it was the garden that kept us alive.

It’s time we remember our roots. It’s time to return to Hippocrates.

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Dr. Luka Kovac’s Confession:

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“The people who have had contact with doctors are either furious, disgusted, or dead. When I see a thousand-dollar bill for a bag of saline—a saltwater solution that costs pennies—I want to quit the whole system. Medicine has been hijacked.” — Dr. Luka Kovac

🩺 Iatrogenic Death: Ways People Die From Doctors and Medical Interventions

“Iatrogenic” comes from the Greek iatros (physician) + genes (born of). It refers to illness or death caused by medical treatment itself.

Here are the major forms:

1. Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs)

  • Prescription medications causing fatal side effects.
  • NSAIDs, antidepressants, antipsychotics, opioids, and chemotherapy are major culprits.
  • Common causes include drug interactions, overdoses, and allergic reactions.

2. Medical Error / Misdiagnosis

  • Wrong diagnosis or delayed diagnosis leading to incorrect or no treatment.
  • Estimated to cause 40,000–80,000 deaths per year in the U.S. alone.

3. Surgical Errors

  • Wrong-site surgery, retained surgical instruments, post-op infections.
  • Anesthesia accidents and hemorrhage during procedures.

4. Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs)

  • MRSA, C. difficile, sepsis from contaminated equipment or catheters.
  • Often antibiotic-resistant due to overprescription.

5. Overmedication / Polypharmacy

  • Especially common among the elderly.
  • Multiple drugs interact unpredictably.

6. Unnecessary Procedures

  • Unwarranted surgeries (e.g., stents, C-sections, spinal fusions).
  • Done for financial gain or defensive medicine.

7. Radiation Overexposure

  • From CT scans, X-rays, and radiation therapy.
  • Cumulative risk of cancer.

8. Vaccination Injuries

  • While rare, some patients suffer from Guillain-Barré Syndrome, myocarditis, or autoimmune flare-ups post-vaccine.

9. Psychiatric Interventions

  • ECT (electroconvulsive therapy), forced medications, and institutional abuse.
  • Suicide from mismanaged antidepressants or withdrawal syndromes.

10. Neglect and Systemic Failure

  • Long ER wait times, poor triage, burned-out staff.
  • Bureaucratic protocols delaying urgent care.

11. Medical Device Failures

  • Faulty implants (e.g., hip replacements, pacemakers).
  • Recalls happen after damage is done.

⚠️ Estimate:
A Johns Hopkins study (2016) identified medical error as the third leading cause of death in the U.S., after heart disease and cancer, accounting for over 250,000 deaths/year.

🧬 The History of Allopathic Medicine and the Rockefeller Takeover

🔬 Pre-1900s: Natural Medicine Dominated

  • Homeopathy, herbalism, naturopathy, and folk remedies were widespread.
  • Healing traditions focused on balance, detoxification, and nutrition.

🛢️ The Rockefeller Medical Takeover (Early 20th Century)

🧠 Key Figure: John D. Rockefeller

  • Oil magnate who sought to monopolize medicine like he did oil.
  • His company, Standard Oil, refined petrochemicals—the future of synthetic pharmaceuticals.

💰 Motivation: Profit

  • Rockefeller viewed natural remedies as unpatentable.
  • Synthetic drugs = patents = monopoly.

🧾 The Flexner Report (1910)

  • Commissioned by Rockefeller & Carnegie Foundation.
  • Written by Abraham Flexner.
  • Advocated shutting down “non-scientific” medical schools (homeopathic, herbal, etc.).
  • Promoted “evidence-based” allopathic (drug/surgery) medicine.

🔥 Impact:

  • 50%+ of U.S. medical schools closed.
  • Natural medicine discredited as “quackery.”
  • Only allopathic (drug-based) schools were funded.

🧠 Rockefeller Foundation & Medical Schools

  • Funded major institutions (Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Yale).
  • Medicine was now based on germ theory, vaccination, and pharmacology.
  • Herbalists, midwives, and holistic healers were driven underground.

💊 The Rise of the Pharmaceutical-Industrial Complex

  • World Wars accelerated drug development: antibiotics, morphine, amphetamines.
  • FDA (1930s onward) enabled control over drug approval.
  • Pharmaceutical giants (Merck, Pfizer, Bayer) expanded.
  • By the 1950s-70s: psychiatry began pathologizing emotion (depression, ADHD) and medicating everything.

🧠 Modern Era: Corporate Medicine

  • Doctors as employees, pressured to prescribe and bill.
  • Insurance-driven care: profit over people.
  • Lobbying and influence: Big Pharma funds media, medical journals, and regulators.
  • Mass drug dependency: opioids, SSRIs, statins, ADHD meds.

🚑 Kovac’s Final Thought:

“I got into this field to save lives. Now I see billing departments running hospitals, drug reps training doctors, and people dying from the very treatments meant to cure them. The Hippocratic Oath has been replaced by quarterly profit reports. Maybe that’s the real disease.”

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