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The Medical Profession Leadership – Is Their Pharmacy Rant a cry for a Direction?
The medical profession has always promoted itself as being the leading health modality with all other health formats and modalities being inferior. It has reinforced that vision through the lens of adopting power politics as its primary marketing strategy. This meant that instead of being respectful and gaining the collaborative support of all other health…
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Professional Discretion Restored – Much More than Homeopathic Product Sales
The Australian Government has made a commonsense decision to allow pharmacists to continue the sale of homeopathic products for those patients who find they derive benefit from their use. The actual extract from the government response to the homeopathy issue in the final King Review Report states: “Recommendation 4-4: Sale of Homeopathic Products in PBS…
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No Evidence? ….Who’s kidding whom?
I had the privilege last week of speaking on both days at the 4th Annual National Institute of Integrative Medicine Symposium in Melbourne. Twenty-five International and Australian speakers presented the latest evidence-based research, therapies, treatments and innovative technologies. The topic list contained many of the issues our patients are confronting each day: Cancer: Integrative Oncology,…
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OMNS – The Forces Against Health in Australia – Nutritional medicine could save hundreds of millions of lives, but vested interests actively pursue the opposite.
(OMNS June 25, 2012) Health practice in Australia is still focused on treatment of disease as opposed to its prevention and the optimization of health. Although the scientific literature has recently shown an increasing awareness of the importance of lifestyle factors in preventing disease, mainstream medical professionals continue to be trained to react to disease…
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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service – MAGNESIUM
(OMNS Nov 9, 2017) Even though I’ve spent the last 20 years focused on one mineral, magnesium, it’s made me a generalist, not a specialist, because magnesium does so much for the body. Most people are deficient in magnesium. So I’ve listed below the top 10 facts and 12 functions associated with magnesium. There are several…
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Please give me eye contact!
It what seems obvious findings, patients prefer their doctors to be engaging in conversation, and to ignore any online screens. As electronic medical records become more common, it’s not unusual for doctors to enter data into a computer as they talk with their patients. Doctors seeing patients for the first time, when trying to build…
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The “flu”……What role can we play?
It’s been interesting listening and watching as “experts” try and explain the issues behind what has been a disastrous vaccination results in Australia. The news each evening has the usual media beat-up where we are all going to die as this dangerous, mutating virus envelopes us all. But what have we been telling our patients?…
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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service – They’re Back! The Pharmaceutical Shills
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” (Upton Sinclair) Now there’s yet another article cautioning readers to not take vitamins because they may somehow increase the risk for lung cancer. [1,2] Attacks pushing drug treatment, in preference to less expensive and more effective…
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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service (OMNS) – Media Medicine: Have You No Sense of Decency?
They picked the wrong day to announce that a “Study finds 275,000 calls to poison control centers for dietary supplement exposures.” I am just in the mood to take this on. Why? Because the same poison control centers report zero deaths from any dietary supplement. See for yourself at http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v13n02.shtml Now take a look at the supplement-bashing…
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Behind the Scenes in Natural Therapeutic Medicine
Did you notice the new name? I’ve decided that “natural medicine” doesn’t hold much credence any more. I’m saying that if we can have a therapeutic benefit in an option to powerful medications, then let’s call a spade a bloody shovel!. A meeting of many of the modalities in Melbourne last weekend, attended by some…