JAMA 1999;282:2287-2288 “As a result of rigorous scientific investigation, several therapeutic and preventive modalities currently deemed elements of complementary and alternative medicine will have proven effective. Therefore, by 2020, these interventions will have been incorporated
I am imprinted with 50’s and 60’s movies. Annie has seen me through the darkest hours of night. So has Julie Andrew’s “favorite things and then I don’t feel so bad.” If you are suffering now through the Holidays, belt out those songs as loud as you can as often as possible. Movies and
The top of Maslow’s scale of development is self-actualization. That is what I hope to develop for my patients. Too lofty a goal? Perhaps, but they say to aim for the starts. I do so by aiming for self-actualization myself. A major step in my professional life was to drop out of our t
Every week, I get at least one phone call from a patient asking for an antibiotic prescription for a cold, a cough, a runny nose and other assorted respiratory and urinary symptoms. I have never complied with their requests. “My other doctor did it all the time!” “Sorry to hear.” I re
Cancer is 85% environmental. Let’s stop blaming our native, natural estrogens and our genes. Best to avoid XENOESTROGENS in the environment (plastics, pesticides, heavy metals, etc.) They overstimulate breast and prostate cells. Since we cannot eliminate them in today’s economies, we
A big study came out showing that stents to open up clogged up coronaries are no better in prolonging life than statins drugs. Let’s take that one step further: statin drugs are no better than an apple a day. I bet Dr. Ornish, the author of REVERSING HEART DISEASE with diet alone is f
Last week a patient dying from C. difficile, a bacterium that strikes in the intestines, was cured by receiving a stool transplant from a healthy donor. No antibiotic had helped her and her native immune system was not good enough to protect her against this superbug. The focus of the
I have to make sense of the forest before I micromanage each tree: I suffer from the Ionian Enchantment. Back around 600 BC, greek philosophers maintained that all knowledge is linked, a concept that Dr. Wilson recently rehashed in his book CONCILIENCE. This is why I became a Generali
