Know Your Doctor — Informed Consent: What It Was Supposed to Mean
Informed consent is a legal and ethical doctrine with a specific meaning: before a medical procedure, treatment, or intervention, the […]
Old Ways for New Days
Informed consent is a legal and ethical doctrine with a specific meaning: before a medical procedure, treatment, or intervention, the […]
Clinical practice guidelines are the documents that tell physicians what to do. When a patient presents with elevated cholesterol, hypertension,
Medical school in the United States is four years of intensive training that produces physicians who are extraordinarily skilled at
The posts in this section covered the lymphatic system, the endocrine system, the gut-brain axis, inflammation, frequency and bioelectromagnetics, sleep,
The posts in this section covered specific drug classes — statins, blood sugar medications, antibiotics, PPIs, antidepressants, and painkillers. Across
NSAIDs — non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs — are so ubiquitous they barely register as drugs. Ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), naproxen (Aleve), aspirin
In 2022, a systematic review by Joanna Moncrieff and colleagues published in Molecular Psychiatry examined the full body of evidence
Proton pump inhibitors — PPIs — are among the most prescribed and most purchased drugs in the United States. Omeprazole
Antibiotics are the most genuinely life-saving drug class in the history of medicine. Bacterial pneumonia, sepsis, meningitis, infected wounds —
Type 2 diabetes is a disease of insulin resistance — a metabolic condition in which cells stop responding adequately to