Nov
4
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Month Continues
November 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment
This Ain’t no Party, This Ain’t no Disco, This Ain’t no Fooling Around It’s a grim business, medicine I mean. For all the hype it’s nothing more than a futile struggle with death, a battle lost in the early stages by some, a bit later by others, but lost all the same in the end. [...]
Oct
26
Res Ipsa Loquitur
October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Integrative Medicine The term “integrative medicine,” like the words “holistic” and “natural,” is a mealy-mouthed euphemism for such a broad range of ideas, most of them utter tripe, that it means nothing. Although it once must have meant something to somebody, now it is just another marketing phrase to make people feel good about buying [...]
Oct
18
Why Chiropractors are Idiots, Your Stinking Well-Being, and Other Topics
October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Beware On the same shift I saw two very sick patients, both of whom were under the care of chiropractors before they decided to pay us a visit in the Emergency Department. The first was an old woman with a one week history of dyspnea, chest pain, and a cough. Her chiropractor had diagnosed her [...]
Jun
9
Ask Yer’ Uncle Panda….
June 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Say Uncle Panda, I notice you haven’t written about chiropractors. What do you think about them and chiropractic in general? . Chiropractors serve a useful role in society, particularly when it comes to taking some of the pressure off of used car salesmen who would otherwise have the market cornered on chicanery. Nobody likes to [...]
May
8
A Quick Note
May 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment
100K My hit counter tells me that I’ve had 100,000 unique visits to this blog in the last six months. Add that to the 120,000-or-so visits before I started using Sitemeter and that’s not bad for sixteen months of blogging. Readership is growing and I like to think it’s because I have a lot of [...]
Dec
26
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
December 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Keep an Open Mind So they asked me a lot, when I was interviewing for medical school, what I thought about complementary and alternative medicine particularly the use of traditional practices as adjuncts to Western Medicine. I’m all for it. There are a lot of traditional practices I’d like to see become a part modern [...]