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"In Canada, most physiatrists, orthopedists, and general practitioners are not convinced that fm can be a consequence of or "reactive" to discrete events, including discrete traumatic events. Only some Canadian rheumatologists are comfortable with that hypothesis (White et al. 2000) despite British data that there is no important increment in the incidence of persistent widespread pain in the six months after a motor vehicle accident (Wynne-Jones et al. 2005)." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"He reached out to military psychiatrists concerned with the challenges facing soldiers in the new Cold War era; to restless psychosomatic medical clinicians looking for alternatives to the old Freudian nostrums; to general practitioners looking for new ways of making sense of patients with elusive symptoms; to special-interest lay groups (The Young Presidents' Club, the Million Dollar Round Table, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's International Meditation Society); and to ordinary people who read magazines like The Readers' Digest." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "To see what others thought, they sent a survey around to a hundred and fifty San Francisco businessmen and a hundred general practitioners, asking them the same question: Were there any personality traits they believed characterized people who had heart attacks? From the list of options on the questionnaire, more than 70 percent of the businessmen and a majority of the internists picked "excessive competitive drive and meeting deadlines."52 This was clinical intuition. The question was, could it be validated objectively in a clinical study?" - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"They are general practitioners, and a newer specialty called family practitioners, but also included are specialists in general internal medicine. The American Medical Association (AMA) also counts pediatricians and obstetrician-gynecologists as primary care physicians. It is a growing—and evolving—profession. In the United States, in 1998, there were 264,000 primary care physicians, almost double the number from 1970. Of these, the most common specialty was internal medicine, 100,000 (41% of the total), followed by 66,000 (21%) in family practice—a specialty that did not exist in 1970." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Instead of producing more general practitioners, the new federal dollars dramatically increased the number of specialists." All those new specialists would be kept gainfully employed by private insurance and Medicare. Far from reining in medical fees, as the AMA had feared throughout the Medicare battles of the 1950s and '60s, the federal program's enactment helped drive the steep and unprecedented escalation in the incomes of both hospitals and doctors that had already begun a decade earlier." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "General practitioners, now called primary care physicians, were the diagnosticians—thinkers—of medicine. They had more trouble maintaining their incomes by doing more, but even they could always tell patients to come back for a follow-up visit to keep their appointment books filled. Patients complied, because now most of them were buffered by insurance from the price of their care—and because they trusted their doctors. The subsidies for medical education also helped drive all those new physicians toward specialization. " - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"These doctors are the closest to the general practitioners of yesterday. In contrast to specialists who have to be expert in a tiny part of the body, the family practitioner is a gen-eralist and has extensive training in marrying the principles of psychiatry to those of medicine. The broad training of such doctors makes it less likely that you'll find yourself cut off in midsentence as you describe your symptoms. Another way to reduce the chances of getting a doctor with the three Bs is to turn to a female physician." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"In Britain, the Thatcherite ethos of individual choice and decentralization left many general practitioners managing their own budgets, and with the liberty to purchase alternative medical services if they wished. Many did so, creating a patchwork of data, but few scientifically credible and comparable trials." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, many normal individuals can have an elevated AGA IgG, causing much confusion among general practitioners. AGA IgG is useful in screening IgA-deficient individuals, because the other antibodies used for routine screening are usually of the IgA class. Whereas only 0.2-0.4% of the general population has selective IgA deficiency, as many as 2-3% of people with celiac disease are IgA deficient, complicating the screening procedure [58]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"An older class of antidepressants, called tricyclic antidepressants, or TCAs, was also effective at reducing anxiety, but general practitioners avoided them due to their frequent and disturbing side effects including an often uncomfortably fast heart rate, weight gain, and very dry mouth. As an alternative to TCAs, practitioners often turned to benzodiazepines, like Valium and Xanax. I very rarely prescribe these drugs because people can become dependent on them. Moreover, the characteristics of these drugs may make it hard to determine whether symptoms are continuing or disappearing." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"According to a Canadian survey, most physiatrists, orthopedists, and general practitioners are not convinced that fibromyalgia can be a consequence of or "reactive" to discrete events, including discrete traumatic events. Only some Canadian rheumatologists are comfortable with that hypothesis. However, if one follows a cohort of well workers closely over time, those who develop persistent widespread pain are no more likely to experience any unusual event than those who remain well. Functional somatic syndromes. It is on this background that a medical treatment act is initiated." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"About two thirds had been referred by what were then called general practitioners and medical specialists. The other third came from surgical specialists looking for help in diagnosis. How times have changed! The primary care physicians and internists of today would refer such patients to neurologists, orthopedists, neurosurgeons, or pain specialists. Some would be referred to chiropractors or acupuncturists. And there would be a broader age range. Today, we occasionally get teenagers, and older people in their sixties, seventies, and even eighties are not uncommon." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

"Even though patients present to doctors with complaints, or symptoms, as many as half of all patients seeing family or general practitioners are found to be free of disease. By process of elimination, their symptoms are determined to be due to the stress of everyday living and include psychological and psychiatric symptoms, and ailments such as depression, anxiety, panic, insomnia, and so on. These patients require an understanding, compassionate explanation of the nature of their symptoms and how the stress of everyday life can be overwhelming at times." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"Type A personalities (9) were more likely to see gynecologists (who are more likely to prescribe hormones than are internists and general practitioners) and (10) were more likely to be wealthier and better educated.21 This last fact by itself could explain all the perceived benefits the women on estrogen appeared to receive as could the fact which preceded it. And even now that list is not comprehensive. Consider one more difference that, again, taken all by itself could explain why it seemed women on estrogen enjoyed better health when in fact it was putting their health at risk." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"But should a drug company also be allowed, as has been the case with antidepressants, to dispatch tens of thousands of young, barely trained sales reps, most just out of college, to hand out to general practitioners, with no experience in psychiatry, studies that "suggest" that adult antidepressants "might" help kids with depressions? The murk blossoms anew. The FDA's traditional response was to come down hard on the latter cases, and it intended to protect its powers to do so by appealing the court decision. But again the FDA lost." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.) "Like Prozac and other similar chemicals, it was not much better than the previous generation of antidepressants, or mood stabilizers, but it did have one big thing, marketing-wise, in its favor: it was almost impossible to overdose from it, and that made selling it to general practitioners, until then uneasy about prescribing psychiatric drugs for fear of such complications, a snap. This feature created a huge new prescribing base." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.) "There were small voices that cried alarm, citing the thinness of the data and the fear that such de facto off-label promotion might lead to overprescribing by general practitioners who had no clue how to treat the disease. But by now the climate had changed; the Supreme Court had said that drug companies had the right to distribute such data. To complain that they shouldn't was simply patronizing, and we couldn't have any of that." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"In a recent survey of 2,316 randomly selected patients (age 18 years and older) seen by general practitioners, 42.5% of all patients had evidence of a threshold/subthreshold psychiatric disorder.5 In the same survey, anxiety disorders were found in 19% of all patients. In a survey of 88 outpatients in an internal medicine clinic, 30% of patients had mixed anxiety features, 33% had generalized anxiety symptoms, almost half reported obsessive-compulsive personality symptoms, and about one quarter had marked levels of worry." - Dr. Jonathan Prousky, BPHE, BSc, ND, FRSH, Anxiety: Orthomolecular Diagnosis and Treatment (Get the book.)

"Abraham says gastroenterologists, who treat NSAID-related side effects, are obviously aware of the importance of preventing bleeding, but doctors in other specialties as well as general practitioners may not be as mindful. "It's a common health-care issue for us, but if you're in general practice with, say 100 patients, 10 of whom are on NSAIDs and only one of whom may have had bleeding, unless you've had an experience with it, you might not know," she says." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Vittone WW Baughman In 1967 a group of British general practitioners published a report in the British Medical Journal describing a man whose fingers had become stunted while he was working with levels of polyvinyl chloride believed to be perfectly safe.6 At the time one could still look on such incidents as singular occurrences. The man's employer took the position that he must have a genetic defect or some rare disease. But within a few years, many similar reports appeared of men who had worked with vinyl chloride and suffered stubbed fingers. In one case a man's jaw dissolved." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Given that the majority of prescriptions for mind-altering antidepressants now are written by general practitioners - the family physician - Spitzer's admission is a frightening commentary on the accuracy of psychiatric diagnosing. Some physicians, so disturbed by the deterioration of their profession, have felt compelled to put pen to paper regarding their observations of the APA, one going so far as to resign from membership with the professional organization. The following excerpts are representative of what a growing number of doctors believe to be pervasive throughout the APA." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"Evidence from the German Association of General Practitioners' multicenter placebo-controlled double-blind study. Arzneimittelforschung Oct;40(10):l 111-6. 1990 Meher S, Duley L. Garlic for preventing pre-eclampsia and its complications. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 3:CD006065, 2006. McCrindle BW, Heiden E & Conner WT. Garlic extract therapy in children with hypercholesterolemia. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med; 152(1):1089-1094. 1998 McGuffin M, Hobbs C, Upton R et al (eds). Allium sativum L. The American Herbal Products Associaton's Botanical Safety Handbook. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL:6-7,183,188." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"Instead of producing more general practitioners, the new federal dollars dramatically increased the number of specialists." All those new specialists would be kept gainfully employed by private insurance and Medicare. Far from reining in medical fees, as the AMA had feared throughout the Medicare battles of the 1950s and '60s, the federal program's enactment helped drive the steep and unprecedented escalation in the incomes of both hospitals and doctors that had already begun a decade earlier." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "This was especially true for proceduralists—surgeons, orthopedists, gastroenterologists. general practitioners, now called primary care physicians, were the diagnosticians—thinkers—of medicine. They had more trouble maintaining their incomes by doing more, but even they could always tell patients to come back for a follow-up visit to keep their appointment books filled. Patients complied, because now most of them were buffered by insurance from the price of their care—and because they trusted their doctors." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"In 2004 the Royal College of general practitioners in the U.K. accused drug companies of over-hyping diseases to sell more prescription drugs, including hypertension, osteoporosis, high cholesterol, anxiety, and clinical depression. Cocaine injection kit Source: Courtesy of www.Cocaine.org The exposed behavior of the FDA and Merck regarding the safety of Vioxx earned itself scathing criticism from The Lancet, where Dr." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "If the disease is, by itself, "high cholesterol", then the cure for the disease must be nothing other than lowering The Royal College of general practitioners in the U.K. has accused drug companies of inventing fictitious diseases or exaggerating the severity of symptoms in order to boost drug sales. the high cholesterol, we're told by doctors and drug companies." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Many in the company believed an indication for childhood depression was right around the corner; general practitioners, after all, were already prescribing the drug to children. By the end of 2000, Paxil had sales exceeding $2.1 billion, and there was no end in sight for new indications. Despite that success, analysts were not strong on SmithKline Beecham stock. Leschly may have done a good job by mining one or two drugs for their enormous potential, but he had been a failure at developing a pipeline of promising new drugs that would take Paxil's place when it came off patent." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"According to a Canadian survey, most physiatrists, orthopaedists, and general practitioners are not convinced that fibromyalgia can be a consequence of or reactive to discrete events, including discrete traumatic events. Only some rheumatologists are comfortable with that hypothesis. Functional somatic syndromes Medical treatment acts are initiated on the basis of such histories. If it is with a primary care or specialty physician, the treatment will begin with a history of the present illness. In either case, a clinician predisposed to hearing certain complaints elicits the history." - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.)

"Because general practitioners do not have the sophisticated equipment necessary to measure the quantity of hormones each individual patient might in theory need, any of the advertised positive effects of HRT can also actually be reversed on prescription. For instance, blood pressure goes up and down depending on levels of oestrogen. While some women did say that their blood pressure became Tower and lower' to an unhealthy degree, other women reported serious rises - which could ultimately have led to strokes or heart attacks." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"A large number of people present to me, and to all general practitioners, with symptoms that reflect imbalances in this chakra. Financial or relationship insecurities, particularly in young and middle aged men, frequently show up as low back pain or sciatica. I see this pattern every week in my practice, and it often allows me to open up a discussion into the underlying causes. Sometimes this is their first introduction to the links between their body and their mind, and once they realize this, they are able to make the necessary changes that ensure healing." - Robin, Dr. Kelly, The Human Antenna: Reading the Language of the Universe in the Songs of Our Cells (Get the book.)

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