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"After making copies of this master tape (again, with no one listening), he locked the master tape away, to eliminate the possibility of fraud, and gave medical students the copies a day later. The volunteers were asked to listen to the tape and send an intention to have more clicks in their left ear. Schmidt also created control tapes by running the audio device but not asking anyone to attempt to influence the left-right clicks. As expected, the right and left clicks of the controls were distributed more or less evenly." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"CHAPTER 7 THE COMMERCIAL TAKEOVER OF MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE From their first day of training, medical students are taught to trust the research published in peer-reviewed medical journals." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Remembering my own medical training and watching the medical students whom I was teaching struggle to learn how to base their care on the scientific evidence in the medical journals, I could see that doctors' trust in the literature was being skillfully exploited by commercial interests. But my colleagues and students were skeptical when I tried to show them that the material they were trying so hard to keep up with could not always be trusted. I had always thought of myself as a disciplined mainstream practitioner grounded in medical science, caring, and common sense." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "A survey of medical students showed that only three out of 1000 thought that good students were encouraged to go into primary care fields. Most doctors are in their late twenties or early thirties when they finish their training. They finish with an average debt of over $100,000, at just about the time they want to start a family and get on with their lives. The starting salary for many specialties is more than twice that of primary care doctors." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Presenters are vulnerable to criticism of their medical care by more senior team members, vulnerable to getting grilled on their medical knowledge (the medical students call this "getting pimped"), and at risk of public humiliation. Rarely does this happen, but just knowing that it can is both highly motivating and highly intimidating. This system is elegantly designed to allow young physicians to be given progressively more responsibility while ensuring that proper standards of medical care are maintained." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Centrality: A Key to Success We have had the pleasure of working with medical students and university graduate students in accelerated degree programs with high-pressure, aggressive curriculums. The students are overloaded with fourteen-hour days of class and homework. Although we may think a single-minded, nose-to-the-grindstone approach would lead to the most success, the students who thrive physically, emotionally, and academically are not those who study the hardest. Rather, the most successful people insist on taking small blocks of time each day to indulge in doing something they enjoy." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) "In one study, a group of medical students were instructed to focus on increasing the number of certain circulating white blood cells through an imagery program. Lab measurements confirmed that they had indeed increased the cells. Remarkably, when they were asked to decrease the levels of those same white blood cells through imagery, the lab measurement showed fewer cells than their baseline scores. Imagery has provided excellent results in other clinical settings as well. One trained-imagery program resulted in half of its asthma participants decreasing or discontinuing their medications." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) "In fact, just a few years ago medical students were taught that our personalities were etched in stone by age twenty-five. But in the past few years a radically different picture has emerged. We now know that the adult brain has neuroplastic-ity which means that it has the ability to change its structure and function in response to our experiences and thoughts. Though it often appears that the neural pathways have become hardwired, it's only because we're entrenched in certain patterns of thinking, and these become stronger with continual use." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"The main obstacle to finding real cures for cancer is that modern cancer treatment is rooted in the false assumption that the body sometimes tries to destroy itself. medical students are trained to understand the mechanism of disease development, but they are left in the dark concerning the origins of disease. Viewed superficially, to the students, an illness appears to be something destructive and harmful for the body. Seen from a deeper perspective, however, the same illness is but an attempt by the body to cleanse and heal itself, or at least, to prolong its life." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"These methods aren't routinely taught to medical students, but they seem to help some people feel better. I view them as complementary to my usual medical approach. But let me be clear: I have a set of rules for trying these treatments. Those rules are relatively simple, but they are still rules. 185 The premise for using these nontraditional treatments has to be rational and based on logic—or better yet, actual evidence— rather than simply on intuition. The treatment cannot be dangerous, and it cannot bankrupt the patient." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"In addition to his clinical responsibilities, he is involved in the entire spectrum of education with college students, medical students, residents, and continuing education. Before coming to Hacken-sack University Medical Center he was associate director of pediatrics and coordinator for pediatric education at Lenox Hill Hospital. He has been involved in medical education at a national level and as delegate to the Committee on Medical Education to Pediatrics (COMSEP). In his spare time, he's a father to five wonderful children and is an occasional Mets fan. Mady Hornig, M.D." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "He has received several awards for outstanding teaching of medical students and residents. Dr. Boscamp has been a frequent speaker at continuing education programs and national conferences. Devra Davis, Ph.D., MPH, is director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburg Cancer Institute. She's an environmental health expert, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Pittsburg Graduate School of Public Health, and a visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz School of Public Policy and Management. Dr." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Medical schools will spend even more of medical students' time on teaching new mechanical procedures and techniques and less on teaching them how to hear you and understand how you feel and think. That will lead to more diagnoses of "nothing wrong"—even when something very definitely is wrong. Then people will again be left feeling that they're on their own when it comes to finding a pathway to wellness. But that's not to say that we should leave the evidence-based approach behind." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Major universities, including the University of California at Los Angeles, have prestigious schools and research centers dedicated to studying alternative and complementary medicine and to training medical students in these practices. The benefits of acupuncture have been so established that more and more health insurance providers are including acupuncture among the tretments that they cover. You may have already seen acupuncture in practice or, given its prevalence, tried it yourself at some point. It involves the insertion of very fine needles into specific points on the body." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"If you happen to be in a teaching hospital, doctors-in-training, medical students, interns, residents, or fellows may also examine you. These trainees have a wealth of knowledge and may actually have more time to talk to you. In the case of your health-related decisions, it is best to ask more questions rather than fewer. The better you understand your medical condition and the better your doctor knows you, the stronger and more collaborative your decisions about treatment will be." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"One study done many years ago did suggest that it could improve general well-being, but with only limited effects on fatigue. medical students are taught that vitamins are useful only in patients who, for one reason or another, have a vitamin deficiency. However, enough patients have reported that vitamin B12 is helpful that I am willing to try this, especially because this vitamin is not toxic and costs so little. Moreover, one study found evidence of lower than normal levels of this vitamin in the spinal fluid of patients with CFS." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Suzuki and some medical students were planning to check on Kamada Nakazato, a 102-year-old woman living on the Motobu Peninsula. Would Greg and I like to join? You bet! We drove in Craig's car, following Suzuki north past Naha's concrete jumble. We took the expressway along the island's backbone, past the enormous American military base and through Nago City. Then we turned onto Motobu Peninsula, which on a map looks like a knobby appendage on the island's side. Here the roads narrow and the open spaces flanking them widen." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "At the University of Minnesota, Greg taught medical students the science of herbal medicines and dietary supplements as well as issues in cross-cultural clinical care. There, he was also the principal investigator of the largest clinical trial ever undertaken in the West of a Kampo formula. He obtained FDA approval to import and study in human volunteers keishi bukuryo gan, an 1,800-year-old remedy consisting of four herbs and a mushroom for treating menopausal hot flashes." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Pfizer wrote checks to pay for the department of internal medicine's annual Research Day, an event where the company handed out financial grants to medical students and residents for travel. Pfizer helped buy the medical school a mobile clinic. Even the director of the university's hospital had sat on a Pfizer advisory board. The global pharmaceutical giant had paid to become an influential player inside the state's most important hospital, but so too had dozens of other firms manufacturing drugs and medical devices." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Perhaps even more effective in spreading information about the 'new' technique were the enthusiastic accounts of foreign medical students in Paris. Such first-hand descriptions of near-miraculous cures engaged personal as well as social networks, and helped to transmit the hands-on practice of acupuncture. Investigations of the technique, particularly those driven by interest in electricity and its biological effects, spread across Europe. Trials took place in England, Scotland, Germany, France, Italy, the Low Countries, and the United States, as well as in more remote locations." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "Only in the 1890s and 1900s were medical students in Europe and North America consistently encouraged to see 'germs' wherever they saw communicable disease. And even then, their convictions and arguments were still couched in terms of faith as much as in terms of science." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "But eight cities had their own homeopathic hospitals, which treated charity patients as they trained generations of medical students. And the working poor could choose, in 1900, from thirty-five recognized homeopathic dispensaries, while homeopathic remedies were even more widely available for self-medication." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "Crucially and distinctively, many medical students have the opportunity to study acupuncture and other alternative therapies within orthodox universities or medical schools?0 per cent of US medical schools offered some training on complementary and alternative therapies by 2000, and the University of Exeter in the UK has a chaired professor in Complementary and Alternative Medicine. And as Sagli and others have documented, access to the underlying alternative medical theories plays a substantially greater part in all of these modes of transmission." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"It is not an essential pillar of medical education; each generation of medical students learns about a different set of pills and procedures, but receives almost no training in disease prevention. And in practice, doctors are not rewarded for educating patients about the merits of truly healthy lifestyles. Over the past one hundred years, the mechanical treatment of disease has increasingly dominated the medical profession in the United States." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Male medical students who said no were more likely to develop cancer or mental illness years later. Do you feel loved? Heart patients who felt the least loved had 50 percent more arterial damage than those who felt the most loved. 175 Do you have a confidant? Unmarried heart patients who said no were three times more likely to die within five years. Do you live alone? Heart-attack survivors who said yes were more than twice as likely to die within a year.2 The numbers here tell a story, a story based on a narrative template I call "healing ties." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Today From the time medical students enter med school to the time they retire, their lives (and continuing education) are influenced by pharmaceutical companies. The companies buy them lunch when they're starving residents putting in ninety-hour weeks and can barely afford cafeteria fare. They give them gifts. (Take a look at the prescription pad your doctor uses or the paperweight on his desk. That's just the tip of the iceberg.) They sponsor and fund the research they read and the journals that publish it." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Whatever the reason, fewer and fewer medical students are choosing a career in primary care. Between 1997 and 2005, graduates entering family practice residencies dropped by 50%." What are the implications of this trend for our thought experiment? When Fran and I first considered this part of the thought experiment, we expected the data would be unambiguous, that losing primary care would lead to disaster, that losing the institutional structure which promoted prevention would have a considerable and adverse effect on our mortality." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "One study of stethoscope use found that internal medicine and family practice residents failed with this instrument to recognize 80% of twelve common cardiac problems, a proportion that was no better than medical students.35 Such ignorance is alarming. Surely one would find greater knowledge and competence among specialists. Caveat emptor." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"At our Intergenerational School in Cleveland, we introduced a lead-abatement awareness program in our service learning activities with a learning project involving nursing and medical students. Our students, ages six to fourteen, were educated on how to check their houses for lead and the steps necessary to take if poisoning was identified. You can push for your city or municipality to act on lead poisoning. So take the initiative: Write a letter to the mayor; attend a city hall meeting; search the Internet to learn more about what lead poisoning is and what it does to our brains." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Think of the hundreds of diseases and their symptom clusters that medical students have to memorize. Think of the hundreds of drugs that have to be memorized, along with their indications and contraindications. Think of all the diagnostic tests and all the expenses involved in them. Yet many times physicians do not agree among themselves on a single diagnosis! They openly admit that approximately half of their diagnoses are incorrect. That means half of their prescriptions, treatments and prognoses are incorrect." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

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