Using Palliative Care Concepts to Improve Self-Management of Your Health Part II: Improving the Care
Over the past few years I have been working as a researcher, educator and advocate to try to get more healthcare professionals to...
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Oct 11, 20222 min read
Using Palliative Care Concepts to Improve Self-Management of Your Health Part I: Applying It
The first step in tackling any problem is awareness. The concept of total pain is helpful to increase our awareness of the many ways a...
Sep 16, 20222 min read
Using Palliative Care Concepts to Improve Self-Management of Your Health: Introduction to the Series
Palliative care has been called the best kept secret in medicine because it is both extremely valuable to almost all people with serious...
Sep 1, 20222 min read
Developing the Mindsets, Skillsets, and Toolsets of a BS Master
In our last blog I introduced the 4 Attributes (See like a skeptic, Think like a scientist, Talk like a doctor, Stand like a hero) as a...
Aug 17, 20222 min read
The BS Master Cleanse: Master these Four Attributes and You Will Repel Toxins
As I’ve been thinking and writing about dangerous and expensive BS in healthcare, I’ve come to see that the skills and attitudes...
Aug 1, 20224 min read
Summarizing and Grading the Evidence: The Example of Prevagen Part IV
This is the last of our series using the example of Prevagen, the world’s best-selling memory supplement, to learn how to examine a...
Jul 24, 20225 min read
How to Detect BS in a Research Manuscript: The Example of Prevagen Part III – Study Design
In the final two blogs of our series looking at a research manuscript we will dig into the research itself. (In the first blog we looked...
Jun 29, 20224 min read
How to Detect BS in a Research Manuscript: The Example of Prevagen Part II – Looking at the Paper
In our last blog, we used Prevagen as an example of how to evaluate the efficacy of a supplement, and specifically what sources are...
Jun 17, 20214 min read
How To Determine if a Supplement Is Worth Your Money Part I: The Example of Prevagen
As you get more familiar with the concept and practice of the Medical Bullshit Detector (check out part I and part II), you will start to...
May 27, 20213 min read
Hold Amazon Accountable to Their Own Standards: Request That They Stop Selling Deceptive Books
In a recent blog, I reviewed Amazon’s policies on what standards it has for what can and cannot be sold, its rules for how supplements...
May 25, 20213 min read
How Amazon’s Policies on Supplements Can Help You to Both Avoid and Fight BS
In a recent blog, I shared an article about Amazon banning fake supplements. It appears that Amazon cared mostly about what I would call...
May 21, 20215 min read
Person-Centered Care is a Human Right Part IV: Barriers to Person-Centered Care and What You Can Do
Art by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. from his essay Rise of Neopaternalism on Bioethics.net In prior blogs in this series, we introduced the...
May 18, 20213 min read
Person-Centered Care is a Human Right Part III: Person-Centered Care is Essential
In looking through the literature on person-centered care, the medical community’s weak response to it might signal that person-centered...
Apr 29, 20213 min read
Use More than 10% of Your Brain – The Value of Original Sources
Much of the information we get on the internet, on Facebook, from friends, or in the news is third-hand and second rate. Put another way,...
Apr 28, 20213 min read
Is there a Cure for Medical Bullshit?
Yes, I believe there is. I say “believe” because a cure for medical BS hasn’t been proven yet in a randomized trial. I say “believe”...
Apr 23, 20212 min read
There’s a Sucker Born Every Minute: Amazon and Fake Supplements
“There’s a sucker born every minute.” — Ironically, NOT a P.T. Barnum quote like everyone has been told. It was said by his competitor...
Apr 19, 20213 min read
Watch Out for Big Bullshit
In a recent blog, we reviewed the various agents of medical bullshit and hinted at the idea that much of medical bullshit is being run by...
Apr 7, 20213 min read
Who are the Agents of Medical Bullshit?
Now that we’ve defined medical bullshit, and know what we are looking for, we can ask, who are the agents and perpetrators of bullshit? —...
Apr 5, 20213 min read
What is Medical Bullshit?
We’ve all seen and heard enough BS to last several lifetimes. If you can imagine our cultural landscape as a landscape, and BS as, well...
Mar 30, 20213 min read
Cutting through the Hype IV: Expert Opinion – the Lowest Level of Evidence
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being...
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