Return to Healing: Common Sense Health Care
The authors of A Return to Healing give you tips and advice about how to improve your health and negotiate an often deceptive health care system. And it all comes down to common sense!
Return to Healing: Common Sense Health Care
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The Emergency Room: Overtreatment as a Symptom of our System
The Emergency Room can be life saving, but also can be a place to be feared. We discuss several cases in which protocols and robotic thinking put patients in precarious positions, exposing them to unnecessary dangers, creating diseases wh...
Big Pharma
We talk a lot about Big Pharma throughout this podcast but today we discuss its many tentacles. Soon after making the podcast, Alan watched a hockey game and there was a drug ad on the ice! The Pharma industry controls virtually all...
Medical Boards, Protocols, and Censorhip
This week Andy was reported to the Maryland Board of Medicine by a local cardiology group because some studies he included in his practice newsletter offended them. These were major studies, peer reviewed, but did not coincide with the do...
Dementia: Promises and Reality
Dementia tells us a great deal about our healthcare system. Not even noted to be a disease at the time of Medicare's birth in 1965 it is now one of the most onerous and common diseases of the elderly. Why? And why is the incid...
2026 Cholesterol Guidelines: Putting numbers over people and science
As the medical community scripts new cholesterol guidelines, the media has compliantly announced that our nation's top scientists, most respected medical agencies, and academic centers want to prevent heart disease by screening for high cholest...
