I was delighted to read, last week, a lengthy article in the NY Times posing the question that has bothered me for years about the much lauded 'gold standard randomised, double blind placebo controlled trial'. When every individual is so different physiologically, genetically, …
Conventional Medicine
Numbers and perceptions – of life and allergy
I am an avid reader of The Week and particularly addicted to the snippets on page 6 which include 'Poll Watch' – this week devoted to our misconceptions. Mind you, their figures were taken from Ipsos Mori and Telepraph blogs so maybe the latter need to be taken with a little …
Guess what! It’s not all in the mind…
'When are they ever going to figure out that things are never “all in your head?” Whenever something doesn’t fit in their tiny little understanding, they belittle the patient and tell them they are crazy. Prescribing SSRIs for everything is not the answer any more than a lobotomy …
Ignoring carbohydrates in diabetic diets
Diabetes is not our area of expertise (we scarcely have enough time to keep abreast of allergy, let alone taking on diabetes) but I do feel very sorry for diabetics. Their lives used to be trying, but simple – they had a strict diet to which they had to adhere and specific (not …
Understanding autistic people
I used to be a great fan on Radio 4's Book of the Week, broadcast every night at half past midnight but these days, I tend eschew post midnight listening for the somewhat earlier Book at Bedtime at 10.45. So it was by pure chance that three times this week I have caught the …