Tim Bolen

Biography:

Tim Bolen is a Crisis Management Consultant, and a Consumer Advocate, in the Health Care Industry. He's been in one form of Crisis Management, or another, since 1966. His company, JuriMed - Public Relations & Research Group's business card says "Strategies for Government Besieged Health Professionals."Bolen, in his Crisis Management role, specializes in the problems of cutting-edge health professionals. In North America, innovation in health care is discouraged, and outright attacked, by the status quo. Bolen feels that this is a bad thing, and does something about it.

In his role as a Consumer Advocate he tirelessly examines the reasons why the North American Health systems are so poor, compared to other areas of the world - explains those reasons to the readers of his popular "Millions of Health Freedom Fighters - Newsletter," and suggests solutions.Bolen has been invited to testify in both State and Federal Courts, and is considered by many to be an expert in the politics of health care in North America.

Past Shows:

	Health Advocacy
	Wednesday September 28, 2005

Consumer advocate and health freedom fighter Tim Bolen revealed the ways in which the medical and dental establishments are preventing innovation in their fields, in an effort to protect the status quo.Western medicine relies too heavily on treatment and needs to shift to prevention, he argued, pointing out that the United States' world ranking is only 72nd in quality of health care, though it is the highest priced. 780,000 Americans die each year from unnecessary causes such as adverse drug reactions, medical errors and malnutrition, and the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry is working against us rather than for us, he said. Further, HMOs, which he referred to as "5 minute medicine," are not offering consumers enough consultation time with their physicians. Among his recommendations: Seek out "biological dentists," who have more medical training instead of regular dentists. Stop big pharmaceuticals from advertising directly to the public. For cancer issues, check out th ... More
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