Kids, Colds and Bad Assumptions
Sometimes my best contribution to the topic of the dysfunction of the American health care system has more to do with asking questions that can’t be answered than providing answers. Remember — I’m not...
View ArticleMedical Research Studies Take a Hit
As I am often reminded when discussing treatment options with patients, there are plenty of good alternative and complementary treatments available for many diseases and disorders. Lots of good...
View ArticleOne-Third of Readers Will Shake Their Heads
I read news reports relating to health and medicine every day. Many of them are medical research study reports — usually interesting — but they also make me question how they are being interpreted....
View ArticlePsych Drugs, Shady Practices and One Fixer
In 2003, after taking Zoloft for six weeks to help him sleep, Woody Witczak, a vivacious, intelligent, energetic and happy man, hung himself — and died. ………………….. Last evening I leafed through my...
View ArticleHealth Insurance = Better Health (No kidding)
A report issued this week by JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, reviews a study done by Harvard about the health of Americans and their access to health insurance. More than 7,000...
View ArticleWhen Your Doctor Fakes You Out
Empowered patients will be interested in a report today on the study results of a survey of Chicago area internists (family doctors). It seems that 45% of them see nothing wrong in prescribing placebos...
View ArticleWhy Does the US Have the Worst Rate of Preventable Deaths Among...
From 2002 to 2003, about 101,000 Americans died from preventable causes ranging from diabetes to bacterial infections and surgical complications, so says a study releases this week. The reports are...
View ArticleA Reversal for Alzheimer’s Disease? Maybe. Read Behind the Headline.
Regular readers of this blog know that my mother suffers from Alzheimer’s Disease. That means our entire family suffers from the “long good-bye.” My dad, in particular, has been a saint of a caregiver,...
View ArticleABC’s Eli Stone — Gotta Love a Little Controversy
I’ve watched and heard plenty of controversy from those who are either upset, or elated, that ABC will be airing an episode of its new TV show, Eli Stone, tomorrow night. Eli Stone is a lawyer who...
View ArticleSmoking and Botox — Wishful Thinking and Common Sense
The FDA came out with a report on the negatives of botox injections… It’s like deja vu, isn’t it? Where is common sense? Read this post at About.com, Patient Empowerment.
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