Meeting Nurse Maggie

This past weekend, I traveled to a growing city, about 2 hours away from my home in Virginia.  There, I attended a lecture by Kevin Brown, author of The Liberation Diet, who is a new public relations client of mine.

Kimberly and Liberation Diet Author, Kevin Brown

The meeting was hosted by a woman named Maggie.  I found her to be a real pistol.  She has lost 30 lbs on Kevin’s Liberation Diet, and was quite excited about her new life as a healthy woman.

Maggie is a licensed practical nurse, the daughter of a successful doctor, the and granddaughter of one of the first licensed pharmacists in the state of Virginia to actually graduate from a pharmacology school.  I found it fascinating, that given her background, she is now promoting wellness, and working to get her patients well, so they won’t need drugs.

Nurse Maggie

Her remarks at the close of the meeting, summed up my sentiments, exactly.

Maggie said, “In the 60′s, television was dominated by tobacco ads, The Marlboro man, I’d Walk a Mile for a Camel, and Silva Thins commercials targeted at women. The tobacco companies were spending millions to persuade American’s that smoking was cool, even though it was known that smoke causes cancer.  Eventually, the government outlawed the advertising.”

Maggie then added, “Today, the pharmaceutical companies dominate the airwaves, pushing pills for this, that and the other.  Over 100,000 people are dying every year in America because of side affects of medicines. I have a friend who is a nurse in the D.C. area, specifically she is a dialysis technician. She says that 90% of the patients she is taking care of are on dialysis because of side affects of  medicines, like ibuprofen, salicylates and other chemicals.  ie: Tylenol, Advil, Aleve, etc. I am a nurse and this is alarming to me.  The government needs to put a stop to this!”

When I asked her permission to share her remarks, she said you might enjoy the following article The Perfect Storm of Opportunity by wellness guru, Paul Zane Pilzer.  This piece is where she first realized that the drug business had changed, from drugs that cure and prevent disease, to maintenance drugs meant merely to manage symptoms.

Today, Maggie is a XanGo distributor, which is a whole food supplement product.  She continues to do private home nursing, but she is in the wellness business today.  Maggie, I am glad I met you, keep going girl!