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"And because family doctors take care of a broader range of problems than other primary care physicians, most of my patients already expected to discuss most of their medical problems with me before going to a specialist anyway. Besides the additional administrative burden of processing referrals to specialists, the added responsibility of functioning as the medical gatekeeper had little impact on my practice. Despite the discounted fees, I preferred taking care of my patients on the new insurance plans." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Nor is it practiced by most family doctors or internists. But audiologists—specialists in measuring hearing and fitting hearing aids?point out that lifestyles have made modern iiiimi ii> i \ mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm middle-aged men and women pay more attention to their ears. Consider: Noise above 85 decibels can have negative effects, while personal stereos, construction jackhammers and rock concerts have all been measured at 110 decibels. Bottom line: Think seriously about using earplugs when mowing the lawn, attending concerts, or if, by chance, you work in a kennel filled with yelping dogs." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"We know that her antidepressants were likely not prescribed by a psychiatrist: most antidepressants are now prescribed by family doctors.4 We know that Julie in Iowa was far more likely to ask her doctor for an antidepressant after having seen it advertised on TV or in print, and when Julie asked for her antidepressant, her doctor was likely to comply with the request, even if he or she felt ambivalent about the choice of drug or diagnosis.5 And the requests themselves are very common; one in five Americans have asked their doctor for a drug after they've seen it advertised." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Gynecologists and family doctors need to realize how many women (1.5 million per year) in all walks of life need this service and how judged they feel—most obviously by "pro-life" practitioners, but also by their pro-choice doctors who send them across town to a clinic just because it's easier for that doctor. If your gynecologist won't help, go to one of the wonderful women-run and supported clinics that provide the service out of love and respect for women. Their doctors are very experienced, with extremely low complication rates." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"We'll discuss these labels in more detail later, but they've been around long enough to cause many generalists, family doctors, and internists to apply them in all too many cases. You see your symptoms as real; your doctor looks skeptical and makes a mental note that you're a "crock" or a complainer. Your doctor becomes dismissive, saying that he can't find anything wrong with you, that there is nothing he can do for you, or that your problem is "all in your head." He might tell you just to grin and bear it or even refer you to a psychiatrist. Certainly, he thinks there's "nothing wrong." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"According to the American Academy of Family Physicians, two-thirds of office visirs to family doctors are for stress-related symptoms. Subconscious mind—An aspect of the mind that operates outside of ordinary conscious awareness but exerts tremendous influence on how we feel, think, perceive, and behave. The subconscious mind is a hidden storehouse of memory, deep feeling, desires, motives, thought, and other aspects of mind with which most people are not aware." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"The difference between these two types of doctors lies in the breadth of their training. family doctors have very broad training that prepares them to help patients with common conditions such as lacerations, colds, and pregnancy. Internists, in contrast, receive a more focused education in medical problems with no further training in surgery or obstetrics at all. Finding a good internist is simple." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"More than four out of five family doctors feel that direct-to-consumer advertising is not a good idea. Interestingly, although primary care doctors consistently express unfavorable opinions about the impact of DTC advertising on medical care, dermatologists have a positive view, perhaps reflecting the increase in visits generated by advertisements for skin products. At its best, the trust between doctor and patient creates the opportunity for open discussion of symptoms, fears, models of disease, life circumstances, and expectations." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Pediatricians and family doctors, for example, cannot possibly stem the tide of childhood obesity by themselves when advertisements for fast food and snack foods and vending machines containing high-calorie snacks saturate children's environment, presenting a far more compelling message. Hopefully, in the years to come we will look back and see how ridiculous we were to have believed that biomedicine alone—without considering the health consequences of how we live our lives—could possibly provide optimal health." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"I also had become aware that advancing up the specialist ladder also brought with it a focus on research, and a distancing from the intimate relationships family doctors could nurture with their patients. In New Zealand, most family doctors had longer appointment times than those within the British National Health Service. My friends in England were immensely jealous of my quarter of an hour time slots - three times longer than many of them were allowed. There were still many city doctors practising in the UK in those days without examination couches in their consulting rooms." - Robin, Dr. Kelly, The Human Antenna: Reading the Language of the Universe in the Songs of Our Cells (Get the book.)

"As a family physician, I care for patients of all ages, from infancy to old age. family doctors provide comprehensive care of their patients—they treat the whole person. I am responsible for not only evaluating and treating signs and symptoms of illness and disease, but also helping to keep my patients well. I help my patients of all ages to get well when they are ailing and to stay well. Like most family doctors, I am usually the first person my patients seek out to evaluate their symptoms and examine them." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

"They don't want their local peers to see them as kooks, and don't want referrals from family doctors to dry up. They stay mainstream, and use the "lack of science" argument when discussing nutritional therapies. The studies are there, but doctors just don't know about them (or don't want to know about them). The orthodox medical community is ten years behind in this area of research, and most Americans (not you) may have to wait for their current physicians to get old, retire, and be replaced by the next generation of physicians, who are now being taught these basics to a much greater degree." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"This doesn't mean not using complementary therapists, just recognizing that conventional family doctors have the advantages of continuity, of having to follow strict ethical codes of behaviour, of acting as gatekeepers to secondary care when the need arises, of having no intrinsic reason to dupe or deceive you, and who are paid to be on your side. Even though doctors and patients may seem to be as distant from each other as Mars is from Venus, they are locked in a partnership that goes infinitely deeper than anything the pharmaceutical industry can ever hope to achieve." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) "While family doctors remained largely in the dark, the VIGOR study was creating a stir higher up the cardiovascular chain of command. Getting those misgivings heard was a problem, however. In August 2001, Professor Eric J. Topol, who is in charge of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, published with two colleagues an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that challenged the safety of both Vioxx and Celebrex." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"In this case he would have done well to heed the patients' family doctors, who said the symptoms were "nervous." He was fooled by the truly physical nature of the symptoms, the pain on digital pressure, which is one of the hallmarks of TMS. Freud's view at the time was that the process was "organic"— that is, originating in the body, not the mind—because of the physical findings on examination. His view was entirely justified by the neuroscience of the time. He further believed that the psyche simply used the symptoms for a neurotic purpose." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

"And these are the kinds of instruments schools employ for their initial ADHD evaluations and use to prod and manipulate parents into bringing their children to pediatricians, family doctors, or child psychiatrists. Because the school-based materials are driven by the same criteria physicians are apt to use, they become short-cuts that allow determinations to be made quickly, usually within the short time periods (15 minutes is common) allowed by health insurance companies." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"Like most family doctors, I am usually the first person my patients seek out to evaluate their symptoms and examine them. The ability to recognize a psychosomatic process when it begins is of great practical value since it spares patients unnecessary and inappropriate treatment, which is usually unsuccessful, and only prolongs their discomfort and disability. Timely, accurate diagnosis and treatment speeds the resolution of symptoms and restores the quality of life, which is our ultimate intention." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

"I come before you as a physician in private practice with a report from the front lines, news from the primary care pediatricians and family doctors, the private practice psychiatrists and the families of the patients themselves. I am here, representing the views and the reactions of a silent majority of physicians who aren't intimately connected financially with the drug industry. All the doctors have become aware of the problems that may be developed in the early stages of SSRI treatment. They are warning the families and following children far more closely." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"Breast Cancer Research Treatment 94:153-9, 2005] In yet another study, only 1 of 89 at-risk women elected to take Tamoxifen for prevention of breast cancer and 42% of the women made their decision based upon a negative recommendation from their family doctors. [Annals Family Medicine 3:242-7, 2005] In a survey of 250 women deemed to be at higher risk for breast cancer (2.8% over 5 years), only about 18% of these women chose to take Tamoxifen even though 32% of them felt a high self-perceived risk of developing breast cancer." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Today, however, family doctors are a disappearing species, and fear of a malpractice suit has led doctors to reverse their style; they tell their patients every conceivable catastrophe their symptoms might lead to—lest they be accused of incompetence. Research in the last decade makes the old bedside manner look like the better medicine. It has been well established that stress affects mental functioning, which in turn affects physiological functioning32—largely because stress creates free radicals in abundance." - Hari Sharma, Freedom from Disease: How to Control Free Radicals, a Major Cause of Aging and Disease (Get the book.)

"Years of general practice have instilled in me, as they would do in most family doctors, the art of quick, safe assessment. As soon as I greet a patient, my senses are showered with clues, hints and impressions, which contribute towards my diagnosis and treatment. When I started out in general practice, it was rare for a doctor to see less than forty patients a day. Although this rapid-fire system is hugely flawed, leading to an over prescription of drugs and a co-dependency on doctors, there is no doubt that the sheer bulk of experience instills in the doctor a vast database of knowledge." - Robin, Dr. Kelly, The Human Antenna: Reading the Language of the Universe in the Songs of Our Cells (Get the book.) "Although this approach is encouraged by all academic colleges in general practice, most family doctors find they are too busy to do this effectively. Counsellors, psychologists and complementary practitioners have built their lives and practices around longer consultation times so they can listen empathetically to their clients in a peaceful, relaxed space. And it was this space that I was determined to develop in my practice. My aim was that the consultation served as a brief but meaningful retreat from the pressures in people's lives, allowing a complete focus on their healing." - Robin, Dr. Kelly, The Human Antenna: Reading the Language of the Universe in the Songs of Our Cells (Get the book.) "In New Zealand, most family doctors had longer appointment times than those within the British National Health Service. My friends in England were immensely jealous of my quarter of an hour time slots - three times longer than many of them were allowed. There were still many city doctors practising in the UK in those days without examination couches in their consulting rooms. It is still a major concern to me that doctors try to solve complex problems in an impossibly short time. In 5-10 minutes, a doctor is severely limited in what she or he can achieve." - Robin, Dr. Kelly, The Human Antenna: Reading the Language of the Universe in the Songs of Our Cells (Get the book.)

"Even though family doctors were as ignorant as anyone else of the true safety profile of both classes of drug, they are damned by association in the same way dubious practices in the food chain can lead to a distrust of supermarkets. Pharma is a false friend to doctors when its marketing practices can be shown to adversely affect the quality of their relationships with patients. But this line of causation is disputed. The UK government's response to the parliamentary health committee's report on the industry insists that marketing practices are not excessive." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"In 2004 it was estimated that at prestigious colleges, by the time of graduation approximately 25 percent of students had been prescribed an antidepressant at the on-campus health clinic (while still other students received antidepressants from their family doctors or from their friends). I would have been depressed in college, too, if I'd been graduating with huge student loan debt (common today even among those who attend public universities). Debt is not the only pain that might have something to do with increasing rates of depression in young people." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"Tamoxifen for prevention of breast cancer and 42% of the women made their decision to pass up Tamoxifen based upon advice from their family doctors. [Annals Family Medicine 3:242-7, 2005] In a survey of 250 women deemed to be at higher risk for breast cancer, only about 18% of these women chose to take Tamoxifen even though 32% of them felt a high self-perceived risk of developing breast cancer. [Cancer 103:1996-2005, 2005] While Tamoxifen increases the risk for blood clots in the legs from 5/10th to 8/10,hs of one percent, that is still a 63% increase." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.) "Some 2 million office visits to physicians are generated annually in the United States for prostatic inflammation. family doctors and urologists report that they are "frustrated, uncomfortable and lack confidence" in treating prostatitis. Medical therapy is disappointing. A survey of physicians concluded that that treatment of prostatitis is dismal. [Urology 52: 797-802, 1998] Prostatis remains a mysterious disease. Some men may initially present with fever and uncomfortable prostatic symptoms, but antibiotics don't remedy the problem. About 9% of men have prostatitis at any given time." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Besides, there was greater trust in family doctors to make decisions on their behalf. Such attitudes seem to belong to another lifetime. Now, everyone wants the public involved because it is in no one's interests for medicines, arguably one of society's most important endeavours, not to have the trust of the people they are designed to help. Regulatory bodies around the world have started inviting members of the public on to their committees to represent the public and are providing them with training to deal with the issues involved." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"Although clinical evidence is largely lacking, plant-based cholagogues are frequently prescribed by family doctors in Germany. Their use is based on observational evidence and a long Constituents The leaf contains the bitter sesquiterpene lactone cynaropicrin, several flavonoids and derivatives of caffeoylquinic acid, including cynarin (Fig. 13.7). Pharmacological effects and clinical efficacy Antihepatotoxic effects (liver protection), cholagogue activity and a reduction of cholesterol and triglyceride levels have been reported." - Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson, Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy (Get the book.)

"Phytomedicines are mainly prescribed by family doctors in office settings and certain specialists (e.g., Urologists who prescribe Serenoa etc., or OB-GYN's who prescribe Cimicifuga, or Psychiatrists who prescribe Hypericum) or are self-selected by patients according to their own regimens. A large percentage of patients treated with herbal medicines have relatively mild or ambiguous conditions that often defy a clear-cut diagnosis or can be diagnosed only by exclusion." - volker schulz and Rudolf Hansel, Rational Phytotherapy: A Reference Guide for Physicians and Pharmacists (Get the book.)

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