Okay, back at it . . .
Pardon the interruption. The radical discontinuity in 1910 was the famous Flexner report. Abraham Flexner, who worked for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, was commissioned to study medical education in the U.S. and Canada. Back then there were 155 medical schools in the former British possessions, all of which he visited. (He is often said to have studied medical education in North America, but, err, Mexico. I digress.)It turned out that most of them were not affiliated with universities, but were owned by one or a few physicians. They had what Flexner considered insufficient curricula and clinical ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 9, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs
health and medicine, continued
(In case you haven't picked up on it yet, I have embarked upon a long-form essay. It will continue.)So what is “medical” attention? It is well known but seldom seen as remarkable that most societies known to history and anthropology, even small scale ones with limited hierarchy and division of labor, have cultural roles for specialists in healing people. In societies large enough to support full-time specialists, as far as I know there is always a full-time healing profession. In some times and places these people have also been more generalist priests, with additional assigned powers, and priests can always try to get...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 3, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs
Reader Question – What do you call the short-term cleanse diets, usually about a week long?
Many of you might be asking this same question so I’m posting with the answer here. Enjoy. The question is from MND’11
A lot of celebrities usually go on extreme diets a week before a big event, like actresses before the oscars this week or models before a show. What are these called and what are the most effective ones?I’m doing this for a very large event I have to go to in the next week (I just found out today that I’m going). I normally eat very healthy, but I know people who will drastically drop their calorie intake or have some special diet they follow a few days before a big event. I know ...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - April 24, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Addiction Recovery Author Tags: Medical Detox Source Type: blogs
This Group of Revolutionary Mothers Is Helping Save Children from Dangerous Vaccines
If you haven’t read the new book by the Thinking Moms’ Revolution (TMR), buy it now. As in today.
I got my long-awaited copy last week. I couldn’t put it down. I cried as I relived so many memories of my grandson Jake’s regression into autism after the rabies vaccine almost seven years ago. Wow. Seven years. I can’t believe it’s been that long. It felt like it was happening all over again while I was reading the stories of other families who went through the same pain. The same heartache. The same panic. The same sense of hopelessness. The same … everything.
Like thousands of other stories about vaccine-injur...
Source: vactruth.com - April 13, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jennifer Hutchinson Tags: Jennifer Hutchinson Top Stories Adverse Reaction autism Thinking Moms' Revolution vaccine ingredients vaccine injury Source Type: blogs
Question/Answer: What is a good Detox diet for an ectomorph body type?
‘Ashley’ asks a great question so I thought I’d post it here with an answer – enjoy:
I am 20 years old and have been having digestion problems and a few health problem. Yes, I have seen a doctor about it and everything seems to have rational and easily fixed by medication. It was suggested to me that I do a detox diet just to try to clear out some of the bad stuff in my system. But its hard trying to find a diet I can actually do.I am about 5’1″ and 105lbs. I have a naturally high metabolism and physically need protein though out the day and sustenance or I become ill, light headed, naus...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - April 7, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Addiction Recovery Author Tags: Medical Detox Source Type: blogs
The exploitation of cancer patients is wicked. Carrot juice for lunch, then die destitute
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The time when I lose patience with quacks is when they make unjustified claims about serious diseases. Giving false hope to the desperate (often at a high price) is plain wicked. If the patient stops more effective treatment, it’s homicide. Homeopaths have been jailed for that. Sometimes it’s a result of wishful thinking. Sometimes it’s to make money. The latter is morally more despicable. Both are culpable.
One example was the Totnes (aka Narnia) to “offer real alternatives to the conventional approach to cancer health care“.
Another case, the Dove Clinic, was investig...
Source: DC's goodscience - March 25, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Barbara Wren Cancer act Cancer Options Carctol College of Natural Nutrition Karol Sikora Patricia Peat Rosy Daniel University of Buckingham alternative medicine CancerActive College of medicine Source Type: blogs
The Dangers of Big Corporate Health Care: Deceptive Marketing of Cancer Treatments
A series of articles over the last few months, culminating in an investigative report by Reuters, provided the newest example of what can go wrong when corporations provide direct care to vulnerable patients. In this case, the vulnerable patients had cancer, and the corporation that provided them care was the Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA). I will try to go through the case chronologically.As Rueters reported, CTCA "was founded in 1988 by Richard J. Stephenson, who has been chairman ever since."The Founder's Checkered PastA Misdemeanor As Reuters noted,A graduate of Northwestern University Law Scho...
Source: Health Care Renewal - March 11, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: deception crime marketing Cancer Treatment Centers of America hospital systems complementary/ alternative medicine Source Type: blogs
