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- May 9
- 4 min
Parkinson’s Is a Killer and Palliative Care Can Help
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
- Apr 9
- 4 min
Ask Dr. Benzi: Should I Pull Out of Hospice If My Hospice Experience Sucks?
Healthcare Question: My father has Parkinson’s and is suffering terribly from anxiety and panic attacks but hospice has not been...
- Sep 29, 2022
- 2 min
The Cure for Bullshit: A New Podcast to Give You the Inside Scoop on Medicine, Health, Research
As part of the research involved in writing a book on Medical BS I am interviewing healthcare professionals, researchers, patients and...
- Jun 17, 2021
- 4 min
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...
- Jun 10, 2021
- 3 min
Aducanumab (The New FDA-Approved Alzheimer’s Drug): Much Ado About Nothing
This week, under significant controversy, the FDA approved aducanumab, a medication to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. If...
- May 27, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 5 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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 15, 2021
- 2 min
Person-Centered Care is a Human Right Part II: What is Person-Centered Care?
In the last blog, we looked at how the doctor-patient relationship is often built upon an arbitrary hierarchy where the doctor assumes a...
- Apr 14, 2021
- 3 min
Person-Centered Care is a Human Right, Part I: A Tale of Two Doctors
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...
- Apr 7, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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...
- Mar 23, 2021
- 3 min
Cutting through the Hype III: Anecdotes – The Gossip of the Medical World
Read past blogs in this series: Part I, Animal Research | Part II, Correlations | Part IV, Expert Opinion In this series of blogs, we...
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