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"Physicians and pharmacists are apprised and apprise patients (with uncertain efficiency) as further drug-food interactions are uncovered. That seems a proper function and pressing need in the setting of prescription agents. However, there are enough people in the "dietary supplement" therapeutic envelope that it behooves physicians and pharmacists to consider supplement-drug interactions, particularly in the surgical setting. The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center offers a free website (< http://www.mskcc ." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Making and marketing drugs is what pharmaceutical companies do (we'll return to this issue at the chapter's conclusion); prescribing drugs is what physicians do; retailing them is what pharmacists do. For better or worse—and both outcomes are evident, though the latter is more frequent—each of these legal activities is tremendously profitable. Blaming the abuser is not inappropriate; blaming only the abuser is fallacious, as is not blaming the pharmaceutical industry and the medical industry." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Pharmacists have to provide the right drug at the right dose to the right patient. Somebody has to scrub down every bacteria-harboring nook of an operating room, thoroughly sterilize equipment and linens, stock supply closets, fill soap dispensers, and maintain heart monitors and ventilators. Every single person must do his or her job right every single time or risk the well-being of patients." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"During the early and mid-1990s when these studies were done, almost all spontaneous reports came from practicing physicians and from hospital pharmacists, but nowadays an increasing number also come from consumers who have had bad experiences with drugs. In an in-house executive summary written for the FDA's Division of Epidemiology and Surveillance (September 19, 1989), agency official Bob Wise compiled and analyzed all reports sent to the agency concerning Halcion and Xanax as causes of hostility including "anger or rage, aggression, and some actual assaults and murders." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Although nearly one million people die each year from the side effects of medical treatments or medical errors, it is difficult for most people to forsake the illusion of a cure when learned scientists, doctors, pharmacists, the government, and drug makers so convincingly promise them a quick relief of their disease symptoms. It takes great courage, as well as trust in yourself, in your body's innate wisdom, and in nature, to heal what is only yours to heal. To heal cancer, the entire you must become whole again, including your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual self." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Part of the agreement, according to the Boston Globe, includes MGH pain specialists conducting continuing education seminars on pain control "using Purdue-designed curriculum written, in part, to encourage wary doctors and pharmacists to prescribe pain-killers such as OxyContin." A medical ethicist from Boston University, George Annas, commented: "You don't let outside people write your curriculum. You don't put your name on their curriculum. There's the potential for that being a curriculum run by the drug companies." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"In my opinion and experience, quality control is not an issue with compounding pharmacies that are operated by licensed pharmacists with oversight by state and federal agencies.) There were only two areas where the panel did not reach consensus. How to discontinue HRT was one area. Some clinicians recommend abrupt discontinuation of HRT, while others taper the dose. In general, it doesn't seem to affect the return of menopause symptoms. In women who have a history of severe symptoms, tapering the dose is a compelling approach, and I find it to be preferable." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The general influence of DTC advertising is such that, when AstraZeneca began a massive media campaign for Nexium—"the purple pill"—for acid reflux disease, a psychiatric emergency room nurse told me that her department was flooded with calls from people who wanted to know how they could get this great new pill and what exactly it could do for them. pharmacists say that in the days after a news story or a new DTC ad for a medication comes out they observe a massive increase in prescriptions for that medication." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Like blacksmiths, pharmacists, and later auto- and dockworkers, they depended upon collective action to raise their status and their income. The AMA was in effect a labor union, and its message to the public was, and still is, that patients do best when doctors are paid fairly (according to their own definition of fair) and left alone, to practice as they were trained to do. Like most Americans, doctors wanted to be free to earn a good income; to work where, when, and with whom they liked." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"It was the only form of progesterone available before 1980, when pharmacists discovered how to suspend progesterone in oil. Hormones? Supplements? Everything? There are many effective herbal and vitamin supports that can dramatically improve hormone balance and, in particular, progesterone levels. Such treatments have been used effectively for centuries in both the East and the West. Supporting clinical studies abound. Supplements can play an important role in improving hormone metabolism in your liver and bowels." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"International Academy of Compounding pharmacists ?Provides a list of compounding pharmacists who can refer you to local doctors that prescribe natural hormones. P.O. Box 1365, Sugar Land, TX 77487, Phone: 281-933-8400, Toll-Free Referral Line 800-927-4227 Fax: 281-495-0602. http://www.iacprx.org ZRT Laboratory, LLC ?Performs salivary hormone testing for the sex steroid hormones. Also sells several transdermal hormone creams. 1815 NW 169th PI. # 5050, Beaverton, OR 97006, 503-466-2445. http://www.zrtlab.com/ References Chapter 1 1 Shigemurs, K., et al. " - James Occhiogrosso, N. D., Your Prostate, Your Libido, Your Life (Get the book.)

"Ask compounding pharmacists; call specialty labs. When you get a name, do more research. Call to see if the office is helpful and organized. Ask about treatments. Does the doctor offer natural hormone treatments? How long is a typical new-patient visit and follow-up visit? Once you're an established patient, is there a long wait to get in for an emergency? Does the doctor have any special interests or training? More and more physicians are learning to think outside the box." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "I discovered compounding pharmacists in my area (there are over a dozen in Massachusetts). With their help and expertise, I began using natural hormones in small, carefully monitored doses. With just a 5 mg dose of Cortisol in the morning, my life began to turn around. I had more constant energy, and my irritability disappeared. Low doses of natural thyroid extract and natural estradiol cream brought my sex drive back up, and aldosterone support improved my stamina. DHEA helped my mood and endurance, and progesterone eased my PMS symptoms." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "Compounded hormones prescribed by doctors are produced by compounding pharmacists who are regulated by pharmaceutical boards (see chapter 7). The FDA has approved certain standardized doses of bioidentical hormones that are not compounded for specific patients, such as bioidentical estradiol patches, testosterone gels, natural progesterone capsules, and vaginal creams. Such bioidentical hormones are FDA-approved and available to all women with a doctor's prescription. It is important to remember that FDA approval doesn't guarantee 100 percent safety." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Purdue spent tens of millions of dollars between 1996 and 2000 flying doctors, nurses, and pharmacists to resort hotels in places like Boca Raton, Florida, and Scottsdale, Arizona, where they were wined and dined and trained as speakers to spread the word that painkillers like OxyContin were safe. By 2002 Purdue's list of trained lecturers included twenty-five hundred physicians. These speakers went back to their hometowns, where Purdue paid them to speak at local hospitals and before medical groups. The audiences at these lectures also often received checks written by Purdue." - 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.)

"In addition, the lab I use to compound my cream operates under strict guidelines approved by the National Association of Compounding pharmacists. This is not required by law, so not all product manufacturers go to the trouble or expense. The progesterone molecule in my cream is encased within a liposomal delivery system. This is critical because, as the many layers of the oily globule of liposome melt away like a snowball, the hormones are dispersed continuously through the skin for up to twelve hours." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"The medical doctors and pharmacists have given microorganisms a bad rap! We will see that the ten energy robbers are the true culprits in virtually all disease and that health by healthful living is the most effective means of reversing disease and creating health. 5 Bacteria and Viruses: Not Guilty as Charged! We must look rationally at the bacterial issue. Consider the fact that many tribes ate primarily unsalted raw meat, unsalted raw fats and/or unsalted raw dairy products from the beginning. They did not wash their hands or sterilize their food before eating." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"However, there are enough people in the "dietary supplement" therapeutic envelope that it behooves physicians and pharmacists to consider supplement-drug interactions, particularly in the surgical setting. The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center offers a free website (< http://www.mskcc .org/aboutherbs >) that currently reviews the data as to the upsides and downsides of hundreds of herbal preparations. This is as reliable a resource as is available for any reader who feels the urge to seek benefit from herbal remedies." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"When you reach the pharmacists, ask if they can match any of the mail-order prices for certain drugs. Sometimes they will—especially an independent drugstore looking to firm up a relationship. You've got little to lose, and a professional's service to gain—in addition to your monetary savings. If you do go the mail-order route, a reputable supplier is: • Medi-Mail at 800-793-4726 • More Vitamins, Less Cost l^Jow that you've finally got your vitamin and nutrient regimen figured out, it's time to explore how to stock up more cheaply. Consider a vitamin discount house." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"A few months later, Pfizer treated Iowa pharmacists to dinner and "education" at the CR Chop House, a pricey establishment in Cedar Rapids with steaks and other expense account fare. The Iowa Physician Assistant Society had worked hard to improve its "pharmaceutical relations," according to the group's board minutes in 2002. At each educational event the society asked the companies to pay for speakers, refreshments, and door prizes. In 2004 one of the society's board members worried openly that the group was too slow in accepting the companies' offers." - 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.)

"Although pharmacists cannot diagnose illnesses, they are doing more and more to help patients. For example, computers now enable pharmacists to keep tabs on which medications you are currently taking, so they can alert you if you are taking medications that interact poorly with each other. Fortunately, recent legislation requiring pharmacists to counsel customers about their medications has given consumers unprecedented access to their pharmacists' expertise. If you find it difficult to talk to your pharmacist privately when in the drugstore, feel free to call." - James F. Durante, Cheryl L. Durante, John G., M.D. Furiasse, The Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome / Dysautonomia Survival Guide (Get the book.)

"But consumers need to suspend their fear of reprisal and tell physicians and pharmacists of any supplements, herbs, or alternative practices they may be using so potential interactions can be identified. I understand that, in our age of data banks, many pharmacies keep track of what their clients are taking and their computers "red flag" possible adverse interactions. Physicians will soon have access to that information to inform their patients about potentially dangerous drug/supplement reactions. (Now that I have that off my chest, let's get back to Fran. . . ." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"For example, computers now enable pharmacists to keep tabs on which medications you are currently taking, so they can alert you if you are taking medications that interact poorly with each other. Fortunately, recent legislation requiring pharmacists to counsel customers about their medications has given consumers unprecedented access to their pharmacists' expertise. If you find it difficult to talk to your pharmacist privately when in the drugstore, feel free to call. Most pharmacists welcome phone consultations. A good pharmacy is one that serves your needs." - James F. Durante, Cheryl L. Durante, John G., M.D. Furiasse, The Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome / Dysautonomia Survival Guide (Get the book.)

"Before that, pharmacists could give consumers whatever drugs they desired. This protection, however, was fast disappearing in the land of McMedicine. A few supermarkets and pharmacies had even begun to add their own in-store medical clinics, allowing a customer to see a health professional for a prescription and then finish her shopping while it was filled. The stores often built these new exam rooms just steps from their pharmacies, which could count on increased business. In 2006 a Hy-Vee supermarket in Davenport, Iowa, opened an in-store clinic." - 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.)

"In the case of Vioxx, VHA pharmacists knew it was no better for most patients than older painkillers, and they advised against prescribing it for patients who were at low risk of gastrointestinal bleeds. The computer system also allows the nurses and doctors to monitor their own performance. The rate of hospital-acquired infection, the scourge of surgical wards and ICUs, is lower at VHA hospitals than almost anywhere else in the country." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"If people were to switch from SAD foods to live foods, most medical professionals, food giants, restaurant owners, pharmacists, drug salespeople, people employed by the American Cancer Society and other such organizations searching for drug cures, herbicide and pesticide producers and even many veterinarians and alternative health care professionals would all have to change or radically revamp their careers. This would upset the employee ladder from janitors to executives in every country!" - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"A doctor mistakenly ordered a dose nearly four times higher than it should have been, and not a single person who looked at the order noticed her error—neither the pharmacists who filled it nor the nurses and physicians who administered the incorrect dose repeatedly to Lehman over the course of four days. In 1999> tne prestigious Institute of Medicine published To Err Is Human, a report that documented the scope and outcome of medical error in American hospitals. The report stunned even health care professionals." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Instead, some patients get them from pharmacists after the prescription is written. Lawmakers should also require doctors to tell patients when they are prescribing a drug for an off-label use that has not been approved by the FDA. Doctors rarely give their patients this information, even though these prescriptions may have no basis in science. As for drug advertisements, the FDA should return to the rules in place before they were changed in 1997." - 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.)

"Gerd Schaller: "I have daily contact with patients, doctors and pharmacists. Some know very well how this system works. "Some of them have decided not to support this system any more. They look for alternatives. They leave Germany or other countries, and help people in countries that still permit them to heal and help people with solutions other than the so-called scientific solutions of the pharmaceutical industry. More and more people are in disagreement with these solutions; here develops a movement. Freedom of therapy is the slogan. "Right now there aren't enough people who disagree." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"The International Academy of Compounding pharmacists (LACP) and the Professional Compounding Centers for America (PCCA) are two excellent resources to help you or your physician locate a compounding pharmacy in your area. Their contact information is provided in Appendix C. If you are one of the 20 percent who require a more comprehensive plan of BHRT, you will still need help to win your battle of the bulge. Also remember: You should never take any form of estrogen therapy, even if it is bio-identical, without also taking bio-identical progesterone." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

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