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!
Episodes
9 episodes
The perils of PSA Prostate Cancer Screening
We will discuss cancer screening in the next two segments, but will start with the PSA. Why this test? Because it is the poster child of what is wrong with screening. One third of men develop prostate cancer in their lives, bu...
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12:17
The Impact of the Pharmaceutical Industry on healthcare
The Drug Industry was front and center in the creation of our health care industry. The reforms that created modern healthcare in 1911 and beyond were predicated on developing a research infrastructure in medical schools and in the medica...
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13:58
The Ingredients of a Better Health Care System
In our book, A Return to Healing, we dissect what is wrong with our health care system, and show how you as a patient can better advocate for your own health in a system that often deceives you for profit. But too, we want to fix the syst...
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10:24
A Return to Healing: Alan and Andy talk about the book
In our book Return to Healing we explore the roots of our healthcare mess, and we dissect the many reasons that you are not being given the care you deserve. In this audio we offer an introduction to the book and to this podcast.
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12:25
When doctors tell you what you must do, how do you react?
There is a code word in medical lingo that all doctors are supposed to follow: shared decision making. In other words, doctors should provide you with information and then let you make the final decision about what to do. B...
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12:50
Apple Cider Vinegar: Why Doctors Hate Nutrition
In the show Apple Cider Vinegar, the writers create a binary: the good and all-knowing doctors vs the charlatan nutrition gurus. The gap is so wide between the two approaches that the reader is left thinking that in cancer, as in all thin...
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How "Us vs Them" thinking is used to defend the medical system: David Frum and his Atlantic Article.
Whether it is in attacking Kennedy, or in refusing to acknowledge what is dysfunctional about Medicare, Democrats use us vs them binary thinking to defend the medical system. By finding easy targets that seem inane, or by inventing those ...
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Episode two: what the cholesterol myth tells us and how you can protect yourself from it
We all believe that cholesterol is so bad that we better measure it regularly and lower it by drugs. Just ask your cardiologist: Got to get that LDL cholesterol below 70 or catastrophe will ensue! But as we explain, this is...
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