Category Archives: A New Way to Practice Medicine

Choice, Chance and Outcome: Cloud Based, Crowd Sourced, Citizen Science and Other Au Courant Phrases

Everyone is excited about the possibilities of crunching huge amounts of data and coming up with some more or less magical, emergent pattern that will cure whatever ails you. You can find terrorists by phone patterns, risk of diabetes by … Continue reading

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An ‘n’ of 1

Apparently my posts are too coy. I didn’t intend them to be; I was merely trying to be solicitous of people’s feelings and alert to the vagaries of readers’ judgment. Well, this post is my attempt to avoid coyness if that … Continue reading

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Help Me With This…Please

Drugs or No Drugs As you know the topic of the role of medications in health maintenance and enhancement is dear to me. I’ve dedicated my practice life to health without medication or at least as few medications as possible … Continue reading

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“Eat Right And Exercise.” The Lie That Keeps On Taking.

I would like to recount three small vignettes. From them I want to sketch a conclusion about the lost hopes, health and even lives due to the recitation of the phrase ‘eat right and exercise.’ A man joined my practice … Continue reading

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The Tragic Mirror

Well, I may as well get it out: I trust alternative medicine even less than conventional medicine. Which is not to say there are not many intelligent, caring workers of integrity in both fields. So don’t forget that as you … Continue reading

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