Medical establishments

In the following article, the author speculates about a connection between the low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet recommended by the medical establishment in the last twenty years and the increasing rate of obesity among Americans. 

Remedies that fail to survive stringent examination are by no means limited to Chinese or other traditional sources. The United States has a long history of unorthodox medications, many of them based on plant extracts. Cancer and rheumatoid arthritis seem to attract especial attention, perhaps because orthodox therapies frequently offer little relief from these afflictions. In controlled testing, many widely touted novel medications perform no better than placebos. Proponents of such alternative treatments have often complained that their medications were unfairly denounced and that they were victimized by the medical establishment. 

Collaboration with other Kyiv medical establishments, which are engaged in diagnostics and medical treatment of oncological and oncohematologic diseases, is the important aspect of work of the Kyiv center of bone marrow transplantation, namely the Scientific center of radiation medicine of Academy of medical science of Ukraine, Kyiv city oncological hospital, Kyiv city clinical hospital JV°9, Kyiv city diagnostic center, Kyiv city center of blood and others. 

Co-ordination of work with these establishments allowed creating the optimal approaches of the selection of patients to transplantation and the principles of their rational pre-transplantation preparation, taking into account clinical diagnostic and medical possibilities of all above-mentioned medical establishments. 

Breggin, Peter. Medication Madness A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications. New York St. Martin s Press, 2008. The psychiatrist author describes how psychiatric medicines can cause suicide, violence, crime, and emotional breakdowns. He argues that the FDA, pharmaceutical industry, and medical establishment encourage overuse of psychiatric drugs and fail to adequately protect the consumer. Breggin... 

Other studies show that most CAM users are not abandoning Western medicine, but want the best of both worlds — an alternative caregiver with strong ties to the medical establishment and a physician who understands and makes appropriate referrals to CAM therapies. But this poses yet another problem for physicians, for studies also show that many CAM users do not tell their physicians what they are doing. Most practicing physicians know almost nothing about the potential benefits or risks of CAM because their training has focused almost exclusively on Western scientific medicine. 

We shook our heads pityingly. Poor dupe of The Medical Establishment And yet I knew that I was more like her than I could say. Not that I didn t want a natural birth—I did. I wanted to labor by the ocean and watch the silvery moonlit waves crash and recede. 

This increased information is likely to come from a number of sources. The popularity of web-based medical advice sites (independent, disease association sponsored, and drug manufacturer sponsored) has already been established. These sites serve both the general public directly and the medical establishment which in turn informs (often with clarification and interpretation) the public. Use of such sites is likely to increase as patients and their providers seek more and better sources of detailed information. 

Many people consult their general practitioner for all kinds of complaints, both concrete and vague, such as respiratory problems, exhaustion, skin conditions, (chronic) infections, and so on, without finding effective help or a cure. The mainstream medical establishment often knows very little about chemical sensitivity. Doctors and therapists have not been trained to look for or understand MCS and as a result this causation is rarely diagnosed. In order to connect the symptoms to MCS it is necessary to learn about the living environment and the home and work conditions of the patient. This takes more time than most doctors have available. Much improvement can be made in this regard. 

There is no general recognition of MCS in the medical establishment, because of a lack of consensus about whether or not it is a distinct medical condition. The confusion is caused by a lack of a conclusive medical-scientific explanation for MCS, although several possible causes and mechanisms have been proposed. See entry 27-... 

For this reason, the U.S. medical establishment and some government health departments have still not... 

Fortunately, there are already some general practitioners and doctors who take MCS patients very seriously and cooperate in trying to improve their situation, but the majority of medical doctors have not been trained in environmental illnesses and often do not understand MCS very well. When visiting specialists within the mainstream medical establishment, many MCS patients are met with disbelief or the judgment that it s all in your head, since these specialists cannot find a clear explanation for their symptoms using conventional diagnostic models. 

Central Medical Establishment, Royal Air Force, Kelvin House, Cleveland Street, London W1P 6A U)... 

Especially in the last few years, an escalating number of authors, many from within the medical establishment, have been offering strong... 

Many coastal ecosystems have elevated levels of metals and radionuclides (14). Anthropogenic sources of stable isotopes of metals include sewage disposal plants, electroplating plants, and mining and dredging operations sources of radioactive isotopes include effluents from nuclear power plants and submarines, medical establishments, and uranium ore mining. The pollution from most of these operations results from routine or accidental discharges and are either continuous or episodic. 

Often called complementary and alternative medicine, this group of medical practices has also been termed unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, and even quackery. Because these terms have significant negative connotations, terms such as alternative medicine are preferred. Alternative medicine is not one form of medicine, but rather a diverse group of health practices that are outside of what is considered usual or conventional by the medical establishment. Alternative medicine spans the range of practices, from home remedies to manufactured products, from patient self-treatment to care by a skilled practitioner, from efficacious to potentially dangerous. Specific definitions of more common alternative medicine practices used in the United States are listed in Table 1. ... 

The medical establishment of the time was not oblivious to Stevens activities, the founder being a layperson and the disease in question the no. 1 national epidemic. Stevens (and others selling various suspicious treatments) did not have to wait long for the BMA s (British Mescal Association s) response In 1909 it published Secret Remedies - what they contain and what they cost , a book in which Stevens Consumption Cure was denounced as quackery and the origin of the plant used called into question (19-22). 

As we have established, film stories come from many sources. Anthony Green s Pigeon (included in Appendix A) is based on true World War II events. Looking at a number of films, we find stories such as George Miller s Lorenzo s Oil, based on newspaper accounts of real-life events (a parent s search for a scientific cure for her child s illness in spite of the medical establishment s pronouncement that her son is incurable). Other films are based... 

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