are far too many americans really getting too much medical care?
ARE YOU RECEIVING TOO MUCH MEDICAL CARE? A RECENT CONFERENCE SUGGESTS IT’S LIKELY My hero @garyschwitzer at Too Much Medicine Conference. His @HealthNewsRevu exposes how crap media hype fails to report:1)Costs2)Harms3)Scope of benefits4)Quality of evidence5)Alternate optionsMedia PR has contributed to overtreatment. Only media truth can cure it. #TMMA recent tweet from Dr. Allen Frances, Professor […]
vaccine damage denial: a case history
MUZZLED! HOW VACCINE DAMAGE DENIERS TIP THE SCALES IN BIG PHARMA’S FAVOR “Atopic dermatitis was significantly associated with 11 of 22 examined autoimmune diseases and with having multiple autoimmune diseases… according to study results published in Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. The autoimmune diseases that were significantly associated with atopic dermatitis included: alopecia […]
gerd and your baby
WHAT ABOUT YOUR BABY’S REFLUX (GERD) PROBLEM? Although PROTON PUMP INHIBITORS (PPI’s, otherwise known as stomach acid blockers) are one of the more commonly-prescribed class of drugs in a nation that consumes mass quantities of drugs in the first place (HERE), they’ve been in the news (as well as numerous attorney ads) for the past […]
interesting articles from a large “medical daily” provides insight into our dysfunctional national healthcare
CAN OUR DYSFUNCTIONAL NATIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM BE CHANGED? Dr. Milton Packer is no slouch. And although I wouldn’t quite call him Doogie Howser; after getting his undergrad degree from Penn State, he received his MD degree from Jefferson Medical College back in 1973 —- when he was (gulp) 22 years old. Since that time his career […]
evidence-based medicine, overdiagnosis, and overtreatment
NEW STUDY COMPARES WHAT PATIENTS THINK THE RISKSOF MEDICAL TREATMENT ARE, COMPARED TO REALITY “Most participants in our sample who underwent routine cancer screening reported that their physicians did not tell them about overdiagnosis and overtreatment. The few who received information about overtreatment had unrealistic beliefs about the extent of that risk. The large number […]