Blog Posts

Lifestyle shapes health profoundly but often goes unnoticed. Symptoms signal underlying issues tied to habits like diet, sleep, and stress.

In Part 1 of this discussion, Dr. Benzi dives into how unexplained symptoms can connect to your doctor missing something in your diagnosis.

The term “medically unexplained symptoms” describes symptoms for which no clear medical cause is found. Medically unexplained symptoms...

Learn about conflicts of interest and biases in health-related research. What are the conflicts of interest?

Fox’s enduring focus on hope and gratitude is important and is a key component of the palliative approach. In my clinic, I frequently say th

Healthcare Question: My father has Parkinson’s and is suffering terribly from anxiety and panic attacks but hospice has not been...

As part of the research involved in writing a book on Medical BS I am interviewing healthcare professionals, researchers, patients and...

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...

This week, under significant controversy, the FDA approved aducanumab, a medication to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. If...

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...

In a recent blog, I shared an article about Amazon banning fake supplements. It appears that Amazon cared mostly about what I would call...

Art by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. from his essay Rise of Neopaternalism on Bioethics.net In prior blogs in this series, we introduced the...

In looking through the literature on person-centered care, the medical community’s weak response to it might signal that person-centered...

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,...

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”...

“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...

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...

In the last blog, we looked at how the doctor-patient relationship is often built upon an arbitrary hierarchy where the doctor assumes a...

Photo from the blog Want Better Care? Stop Treating Your Doctor Like a God! by Kevin Swan A few years ago I got an email from a surgeon...

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? —...