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
Medical TV Shows: Accurate or Dangerous?
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This week we discuss medical TV shows, such as House and the Pitt and Grey's Anatomy, as well as medical moments on non-medical shows. Studies suggest that the message of these shows--the doctor as hero, the benefit of aggressive intervention, the fact that there is always a hidden diagnosis behind every complaint--is potentially dangerous. It certainly feeds into the narrative that the medical industrial complex seeks to ferment, the idea that lifestyle changes are either useless or dangerous, and that a deep dive into high-cost health care will save your life.
"The greater the ignorance, the greater the dogmatism." -William Osler, MD
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