Medical Biases

I recently attended a review course to prepare for the Boards. For 4 straight days we started at 7 AM and finished at 9:30 PM. This intellectual boot-camp took place in Vegas, but the only fun thing I got to do was eat dinner by myself at the Paris buffet; a Japanese tourist and I wer
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Still around…

Sorry I have not had time to blog. I have been too busy studying for my Family Practice Boards (every 7 years.) It’s quite an ordeal for me; I have to memorize a lot of stuff (excessive pharmaceutical treatments taking precedence over nutritional, environmental and emotional issues) I
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Vaccine Fights

Not a clinic day goes by without a worried mom asking my opinion on vaccinations. They are confused and afraid to do anything that may harm their children. I feel badly for them, victims as they are of mixed data on vaccinations and extreme positions taken by doctors who refuse to adm
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Drugs Down the Toilet

(Submitted for publication in the UMA Bulletin; I am an Editorial Board member) “They have found that a lot of prescription drugs are turning up in our drinking water. People not only pee drugs into in the toilet but they also dump the unused prescriptions in it. They have found hormo
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The JAMA on Drugs

(Submitted for publication in the UMA Bulletin; I am an Editorial Board member.) “Overdosed America” is a book by Dr. Abramson that documents how doctors are prescribing too many drugs. The Journal of the American Medical Association published an article on February 25th 2009 agreeing
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More on the Economy: Read History

If you are reading this blog you are likely to be a baby boomer as I am. People our age read boring blogs like this one, as well as History books, besides watching the History Channel (a.k.a “Nazis 24/7.”) On the average, I read 1-2 history books a month. You may have read a previous
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Fixing the Economy: Fixing Our Environment’s Health with Green Technology

We are anxiously plunging into an uncertain future. We watch the news each evening, soaking in every bit of information about the economy. Some of us read the latest books on the subject, including history books that may shed light on what is happening. Even though most experts don’t
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Nutritional Economics of Health Care

My 72- year-old mother cleans toilets at BYU. I cannot get her to retire to live with me. She wants to remain independent as long as she can and carry her own weight like many immigrants like her do. Yet, economic problems crushing them are likely to get significantly worse; I anticip
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