by Elizabeth | May 25, 2017 | Break the Status Quo, Chronic Illness, New Frontier of Health, Stress
Why Your Doctor Can’t Help You With Your Stress One of the most frequent questions I’m asked in my medical practice is “Do you think stress is causing this rash?” For years I answered this question by giving a biologic explanation for the rash, sticking strictly...
by Elizabeth | Apr 20, 2017 | Break the Status Quo, For Doctors and Physicians
Putting Medical Science Under the Microscope, Part 5 In my last four posts, I’ve discussed some of the shortcomings of medical science: the irreproducibility of medical research; the fact that medical “truths” can be overturned; and the way bias...
by Elizabeth | Apr 11, 2017 | Break the Status Quo, For Doctors and Physicians
Putting Medical Science Under the Microscope, Part 4 We want to believe that researchers and pharmaceutical companies are primarily concerned about improving our health. After all, it’s our very lives which are at stake. But, just as we need to be aware that...
by Elizabeth | Apr 10, 2017 | Break the Status Quo, For Doctors and Physicians
Putting Medical Science Under the Microscope, Part 3 We put a lot of faith in medications. We expect them to be safe. We expect them to cure illness. We expect them to make us healthier. But the truth is many medications aren’t as safe or as effective as we like...
by Elizabeth | Mar 28, 2017 | Break the Status Quo, For Doctors and Physicians
Putting Medical Science Under the Microscope, Part 2 Last Friday morning, the Medscape Internal Medicine digest which popped into my inbox contained the following two news items: Statins Increase Diabetes Risk Up to 50% in Older Women ‘Suggestion’ of...
by Elizabeth | Mar 27, 2017 | Break the Status Quo, For Doctors and Physicians
Putting Medical Science Under the Microscope, Part 1 Last year Nature published a survey in which well more than half of the 1,500 scientists surveyed stated they have been unable to reproduce the results of medical research — even when they were trying to...
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