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"If the first line of defense for a single organism facing attack from the bacterium was the Innate immune system, society's first responders, then and now, were rhe city's doctors. By Justinian's day, the profession of medicine was as stratified as the Catholic Church. At the very highest rank were the empire's court physicians, themselves almost always aristocrats—comites, or counts." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "Below them were the empire's public doctors, those who wete paid by their respective cities for their services, among whom the highest ranking, dating from the eatly fifth century, were the public physicians of Rome (commanded by law to "honestly attend the poor, rather than basely . . . serve the rich"21). Lowest in both status and income were the private practitioners of medicine. Almost as important as a physician's position was his educational credential. What Berytus/Beirut was for lawyers, Alexandria was for physicians." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"The hospital doctors acted stupidly beyond belief, at one time ordering more Zoloft for her—even after diagnosing a Zoloft-induced serotonergic syndrome. It is unclear how much of the drug was actually administered to her, but the hospital bill charged for three doses of Zoloft 50 mg on the last two days in the hospital—even more than she had been previously prescribed before coming to the hospital. In another colossal misjudgment, the hospital then discharged her after only three and one-half days, before she had fully recovered." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "SOMETIMES WHEN PATIENTS STOP their antipsychotic drugs, abruptly unmasking their underlying abnormal movements, ignorant or unscrupulous doctors will tell the patients that they "caused" their own symptoms by stopping too quickly. On the contrary, the drug was already causing the underlying disorder. The abrupt withdrawal merely brought out what was already happening and helped to prevent further deterioration caused by continued drug exposure. There is no scientific reason to believe that the physical symptoms and pain suffered during withdrawal will cause further damage." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Some doctors will switch patients from the short-acting Paxil to the longer-acting Prozac in the hope of attenuating the withdrawal reaction. To avoid adding complexity by switching drugs, I have preferred to keep patients on Paxil while weaning down to very small doses. In tough withdrawal cases, I may end up prescribing Paxil Oral Suspension (the fluid form) administered by means of an eyedropper for the last tiny doses. In these cases, I make sure that the pharmacist and my patient communicate about exactly how to use the eyedropper." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Even though BMI is not considered the gold standard assessment tool that it once was, many doctors and medical tests still use it to assess weight and so I'm providing a table so you can see where you might fit in. Again, don't rely on this as your only weight assessment tool. I actually think the measuring tape, the scale, and the mirror are the most helpful tools. Determining Your Body Mass Index (BMI) The table below has already done the math and metric conversions. To use the table, find the appropriate height in the left-hand column. Move across the row to the given weight." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"In Britain, doctors now use exercise as a first-line treatment for depression, but it's vastly underutilized in the United States, and that's a shame. According to the World Health Organization, depression is the leading cause of disability in the United States and Canada, ahead of coronary heart disease, any given cancer, and AIDS. About 17 percent of American adults experience depression at some point in their lives, to the tune of $26.1 billion in health care costs each year." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Many of the doctors who now prescribe Zyflamend learned about it during their careers as integrative medical practitioners and/or ethnobotanists. One physician advisory panel noted that plant medicines may have never been put to better use than in Zyflamend. A number of studies suggest that single preparations of antioxidants are not efficiently absorbed by the body except when they are given together. In other words, antioxidants seem to be more bioavailable as whole foods." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"He'd seen seven doctors, and none of them could diagnose his condition. In his oneiric state, he saw himself eating lots of fruits every day After starting to eat these fruits, he said, he'd been cured of his ills within three weeks. At one of Moyle's happenings, David Karp dropped by It was the first time we'd met in person. He again spoke fondly of Liane, whom he called "the divine Miss Vine." We spoke mainly of writing, and of how little money writers make. He wanted to know how it was possible for a freelancer like me to make ends meet. I explained that it always worked out, somehow." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Most women with such DCIS cancers never suffer from full-blown breast cancer, as their "cancer" stays contained to a limited area, but because in a small number of cases such cancers may spread, doctors are often aggressive in their treatment, choosing to perform lumpectomies or even full mastectomies. Taking IPg with inositol will help to ensure that such cancers do not spread. Men's Reproductive Cancers Testicular Cancer." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Neither parents nor doctors may "neglect" such children, and the concept of neglect has been interpreted to preclude decisions to allow children to die of untreated cancer, prematurity, renal failure, or any other disease for which there is potentially beneficial treatment. Thus, children have become the objects of compelled medical interventions both inside the womb and immediately after birth. Children have the right to an education, no matter how limited their intellectual capacity." - John D. Lantos, M.D., Do We Still Need doctors?: A Physician's Personal Account of Practicing Medicine Today (Get the book.)

"The NEJM published a letter from doctors Carl Lavie and Richard Milani of the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans. It read, in part, that the author "discusses generalized anxiety disorder and its treatment with pharmacologic agents and psychotherapy. We are surprised, however, that there is no mention of exercise as an additional means of treating anxiety." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "His decision met with groans from students, complaints from parents, and notes from doctors. He was undeterred, yet he quickly recognized that the grading scale discouraged the slowest runners. To offer nonathletes a shot at good marks, the department bought a couple of Schwinn Airdyne bikes and allowed students to earn extra credit. They could come in on their own time and ride five miles to raise their grades. "So any kid who wanted to get an A could get an A if he worked for it," Lawler explains. "Somewhere in this process, we got into personal bests." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"If they rely on the currently available educational sources, including those on the Internet, those generally found in doctors' offices, and those that decorate health fairs, they will be misled. m Disease Mongering We are a country of obese, hypercholesterolemic, hypertensive, diabetic, os-teopenic, depressed, pitiful creatures perched on the edge of a cliff staring at condors: cancer, heart attacks, strokes, dementia, fractures, and worse. We fear for our future. We teach our children that they, too, must live in fear for their futures." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Facts that don't fit the current paradigm, like the greater reduction of the risk of heart disease by lifestyle changes than by statin therapy, are discounted and ignored: "not real medicine," and "not what real doctors do." For example, when I mentioned to a colleague that Vioxx causes 21 percent more serious complications overall than naproxen, he immediately fired back, "I don't believe it." I told him that the data from the manufacturer's own study showed this, and I could show him how to get the information on the FDA's website. He reiterated, "I still don't believe it." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "The National Osteoporosis Foundation was started with drug company support in 1986. doctors (including me) and patients came to fear that undiagnosed osteoporosis would lead to hipbones' suddenly snapping with minimal trauma, though in more than 20 years as a busy family doctor I never saw such a thing. Coinciding with the public's "education" about osteoporosis was a 1985 report in NEJM about the positive effect of estrogen on the risk of heart disease." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Although many doctors have a gut feeling that there is a pro-industry bias in the scientific evidence that guides their care, almost all of the information that comes their way, including the opinions of the experts they trust, reinforces the validity of this "knowledge." Plus, the findings are made to appear so overwhelmingly compelling and contain such enormous hope to provide ever more effective care to their patients that it is hard not to be a believer." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"It is estimated that 30 to 35 percent of people have sensitivities to gluten (the major protein in wheat and certain other grains), and an astounding 50 to 80 percent of people have sensitivities to dairy. doctors have known for decades that kids with dairy and gluten sensitivities behave differently when exposed to these foods, and there are far more children with these sensitivities than we are aware of." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.) "The media, medical, and pharmaceutical attention the disorders have drawn has led parents and doctors to jump to the diagnosis of ADD and ADHD almost automatically. Instead we ought to look harder for the nutritional and behavioral issues that might cause the symptoms of ADD and ADHD. Instead of relying on the ADD/ADHD label, we should think harder about the kids who might have done better in a different school or on a different diet, or with a little more exercise or with more limits at home, or perhaps even with just some more sleep. It's true: some kids do have unusual brain chemistry." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Cortes respected Aztec medicine and doctors: "You need not send doctors," he is said to have written to his emperor, Charles V "The doctors here are more skilled."15 Aztec physicians indeed could suture with hair and treat wounds with herbs unknown to European doctors. Spain was also losing medical expertise, for another event had occurred the day before Columbus set sail: Jews were expelled from Spain. Until then, medicine for monarchs, nobility, and even townspeople was almost exclusively in the hands of Jews (Granjel 1965)." - Margarita Artschwager Kay, Healing with Plants in the American and Mexican West (Get the book.)

"These findings and the research conclusions of many other scientists confirm what doctors who care for ADD and ADHD patients already know. Diet combined with exercise works. But still, whenever I recommend family exercise as a way to control ADD and ADHD, I hear the same protests: "With my husband's work schedule, and my work/home schedule, and with the children's schoolwork, we don't have time to exercise as a family." I expect this resistance, I respectfully discuss it, and then I reject it as nicely as possible." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"I had informed both my doctors for radiotherapy and chemotherapy that I was taking vitamin supplements, antioxidants and Essiac tea, and I had no objection from either of them." On February 15, 2002, more than two years after his final round of chemotherapy, Kratz says, "My oncologist rang me and gave me the good news: no trance of tumor recurrence. So we are all very happy." "Two months ago I asked about anyone having tried.. .Flor-Essence for cancer because my father-in-law was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer," reports Catherine A." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"The emergency procedures themselves may seem frightening to the child, though, as strange doctors and nurses cluster around, machines are wheeled about, tests are done, and sometimes oxygen tanks or drips need to be brought into use and injections given. Parents must keep the child as calm as possible, as panic will only make the struggle for breath worse. Although the asthma may seem to improve after treatment it is unlikely the child will be immediately discharged, as monitoring needs to be done for a few hours and medication repeated at intervals." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Based on my interactions with Roche, the manufacturer of Accutane, I did not get the feeling that it was encouraging doctors to research the Accutane and depression issue. As reported in USA Today (Kevin McCoy, December 7, 2004, "Drug Maker Rebuffed Call to Monitor Users"), scientists at Roche had written a report in 1999 in which they expressed the opinion that Accutane could cause depression. However, a Roche official testified in 2004 that the Roche marketing team argued against the report, stating that it could "impact on marketing strategy and product liability." What was going on here?" - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "I began to question assumptions that all doctors make. Were medications for cholesterol really that helpful for people without heart disease? Or for women? Should you really take a pill for something like diabetes, which is caused by eating too much? Do you need to take a pill to go to sleep? Do you need to take vitamins and supplements to meet that USDA requirement, and who came up with those requirements anyway? Do you need a pill to have sex? Are those things helping you, or are they hurting or even killing you?" - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "About a quarter of the prescriptions that doctors write for the elderly have a potentially life-threatening error. Many of these people are getting medications that they don't need, or are being medicated for problems that can be appropriately and safely addressed without drugs. For example, most cases of adult-onset diabetes can be prevented and possibly cured with a change in diet alone—and with considerably fewer negative side effects and numerous healthy ones, like weight loss and lower blood pressure and cholesterol." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"The AMA's antipathy toward HMOs not only prevented many doctors from joining them but also seeped outward to patients, who believed the AMA's propaganda portraying HMOs as badly run and interested only in denying patients care to save money. By 1970, there were only thirty-three HMOs in the entire country, serving a scant three million people. A little more than a decade later, with stagflation in full bloom and employers clamoring for relief from mounting health care costs, private insurers felt emboldened to exert some measure of control over physicians and hospitals." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "But the blood cancer doctors didn't wait that long to declare transplants a success for breast cancer patients. They looked at survival at eighteen months, which was standard for blood cancers. When they found no evidence of breast cancer, they assumed their patients were cured. Henderson warned his colleagues against accepting high-dose chemo as an article of faith. By the time he left the Dana-Farber in 1992, to head the division of oncology at UCSF, Henderson had already gained a reputation as a critic." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "With the help of transplant doctors like Peters, they lobbied state legislatures and the federal government to mandate insurance coverage for the procedure. Insurers were in a bind. Paying for transplants could cost them millions of dollars a year. But if they refused to cover them, they faced court cases like Health Net or irate legislatures. Most chose to pay, and as the insurance money flowed, the number of breast cancer patients who were transplanted soared. In the 1980s, fewer than a hundred transplants a year were being performed on breast cancer patients." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

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