I have to admit I pushed the panic button few hours ago realizing that if I don't pass my Biology unit this semester, I am not allowed to take three units next semester. Revised my battle plan and going to spend one extra day for Biology just in case. Those essay Qs really got my adrenaline pumping but I am done with kidneys and Marieb for now.
Was blog hopping as usual but the difference is I read something that I wish I did not. Curiosity kills the cat and send me into depression for quite a while after that. Then, I was blog hopping again and things got interesting after reading about Simon Singh and Chiroprac.
Quote from the review on Simon's book - link here.
“For 2,400 years,” wrote the historian of medicine David Wootton, “patients believed doctors were doing them good; for 2,300 years they were wrong.” Only in the past 100 years have treatments in the mainstream of medicine been consistently subject to clinical trial, to discover what works and what doesn't. Much medicine, though, still stands defiantly outside this mainstream. Can these alternative therapies really claim to be medically effective judged by today's standards, or are they no better than the blood-letting and snake oil of darker centuries?
The article from that bring me to Simon, - Beware the spinal trap by mrhunnybun.
Having started working in a pharmacy and I started to believe what my friend told me. It is hard to convince your customer that something just does not work and they need to stick to conventional therapy.
Ear candle - I did not even knew there is such thing til last week and it does not work.
Liver tonic - may cause undesirable interaction with your regular/prescribed medication aka you are asking for trouble.
and the solution claimed to increase the saturation of oxygen in your blood or those probiotics claiming more than just maintaining a health digestive system.
People come in into the pharmacy looking for all sort of things especially after reading some newspaper articles or just because a good friend of theirs told them how some, for example complementary and alternative medicine works better.
I too find it disturbing when student in healthcare related field believes that they should follow the recommended dose for the Ginkgo Biloba behind the bottle or else it would not work for them (help them in their memory) and they will usually go for the strongest pills available.
These pills contain 1500mg per tablet compared to the 1000mg one. I think I should just get these.
Don't they ever heard of the term marketing? You finish those pills faster and you will have to get more which in turns generate more income for the pharmaceutical companies regardless whether you need those pills or not.
My pharmacist too does not believe in a lot of the what he called pseudoscience.
Some just rely on pain-killers too much, paracetamol + codeine.
Some just rely on pain-killers too much, paracetamol + codeine.
Give me a pack of XXX with the most codeine in it.
You might be suffering from chronic pain and I do not know the misery you have to put up with but it is a bad sign if you are going to develop the I-can't-go-without-them-give-them-to-me-and-stop-asking-questions sickness.
Latest addition to the list would be thimerosol and squalene used in vaccine. Google a little about them after reading here and did not find anything too wrong with it.
Anyway, suggested the library to get Trick or Treatment?: Alternative Medicine on Trial. I think it is going to be better than Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Steven B. Kayne.
Latest addition to the list would be thimerosol and squalene used in vaccine. Google a little about them after reading here and did not find anything too wrong with it.
Anyway, suggested the library to get Trick or Treatment?: Alternative Medicine on Trial. I think it is going to be better than
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