Medical Vampires Stalk The Hospital Corridors!

Posted on August 21, 2011 by ProfKeith

Blood sucker phlebotomists leave patients short of blood! (true!)

I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read this! I know that here in the USA doctors go totally overboard on ordering lab tests. It’s called “defensive medicine”, meaning they do it to avoid getting sued for negligence, not because these tests are necessary half the time.

The US is a country that is driven by greedy, predatory lawyers. Any doctor who even says hello to another human being is at risk of being sued (it’s happened). There is a joke here that lawyers are not so bad on the whole; it’s just 98% of them getting the other 2% a bad name…

But when this defensive medicine has become so crazy they are taking so much blood from the patient for lab work that anemia results… What?

It’s true, apparently. According to a study in the Aug. 8 online edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine, one in five patients who are hospitalized for heart attacks develop moderate to severe anemia because so much of their blood is drawn for routine diagnostic tests! One in five!

So is that a problem? You bet. A patient already debilitated is losing the most vital life force fluid we have; the result is very predictable: patients feel AWFUL and mortality is increased. Lab tests are KILLING patients. That’s when is stops being a joke. Continue reading →

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Snot Is A Medical term

Posted on August 21, 2011 by ProfKeith

I was in Tokyo many, many years ago and had a laugh when I saw a nasal spray described as “good for removing the snot”. Some Japanese had obviously just looked up “snot” and thought it was as good a word to use as any.

Now a scientific test is called SNOT and I’m sure it’s no coincidence! It stands for the modified Sinonasal Outcome Test-16 (SNOT-16) is used as a tool to evaluate the efficacy of treatments in adults with acute rhinosinusitis (snotty nose).

Apparently it works well as an assessment! At least, according to the results of a randomized controlled trial reported in the August issue of Archives of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery.

SNOT-16 measures symptoms (e.g. headache, cough, and nasal obstruction) and limiting functional impairment (e.g., fatigue, difficulty sleeping, and concentrating).

Without an effective measure of success, otolaryngologists are more or less working blind, so this validation of SNOT-16 is important for them.

Spanning 10 community practices in St. Louis, Missouri, a randomized controlled trial was performed to examine the effects of antibiotic treatment of acute rhinosinusitis among 166 adults diagnosed clinically by standardized criteria. Age range was 18 to 70 years; 36% were men, and 78% were white.

At baseline, participants completed the modified SNOT-16 by both face-to-face and telephone interviews. At 3, 7, and 10 days, the modified SNOT-16 was completed by telephone interview only.

The SNOT-16 was easy to use and completed in less than 5 minutes.

Pass me a handkerchief, I think I’m going to sneeze! That’s also a valid way of clearing the snot, I think!

[Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2011;137:792-797]

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Doctors slow to correct their blunders

Posted on August 6, 2011 by ProfKeith

Possibly the most important orthodox medical statement in over 50 years.

We know—or we think of—orthodox medicine as pretty clueless, right? We know that; but orthodox doctors don’t.

In fact, the truth is, some do. I was once very much part of orthodoxy (we,, for about 3 years!), before I jumped the fence. But there are good and true doctors still inside the fence, trying to make it right. I honor them and you should too.

They stick it out, through thick and thin, knowing that the vast majority of their colleagues are clueless, don’t care and don’t WANT to know any better (that’s why I walked out on it all).

So how often does medical consensus turn out to be wrong? Continue reading →

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A Useful Vaccine

Posted on August 1, 2011 by ProfKeith

Here’s What I Call A Potentially Useful Vaccine.

It’s a vaccine designed to immunize a person against the “high” that is induced by heroin. Taking the drug will no longer help the addict get their accustomed thrill and so, it is hoped, he or she will quit the habit relatively easily.

See, vaccines work; not all—but you’d think when reading the tirades by ignorant and medically untrained fools on the Internet that all vaccines were evil and didn’t work any way.

I’ve said many times that I am happy there is a rabies vaccine, while living in the world. For its development Louis Pasteur deserves credit and acclaim for all time. Those who rant against his supposed cupidity are themselves twisted, jealous and big time liars. Continue reading →

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Food Allergies toxic Foods and Beyond

Posted on July 29, 2011 by ProfKeith

Recently, I have grown dissatisfied with the title of my book “Diet Wise”. It seems far too many people see the word diet and make assumptions (which are wrong, anyway). I don’t think people understand the widespread and extreme problems of food reactions or the vital necessity of working out one’s own personal safe food plan. You are going to eat a LOT of food in your lifetime; it doesn’t make sense to allow more than a fraction of it to be toxic for you. But most people never take the trouble to work out which foods are right for them and which are not.

There is an illogical supposition that, because foods feed and nourish us, therefore they must all be safe. But I have seen foods cripple people, kill them early, make life tragically miserable, cause chronic pain and disease, paralysis, destroy mental function, make people violent and ruin social skills, to name just a few problems.

And I’m not talking about junk foods: I’m talking about wholefoods, fresh and organically grown.

Neither is this just a matter of food allergies, though that’s what we used to call it. Today we know that a lot of it is genetic incompatibility to certain foods. Due to some tiny variation in a gene, the person cannot digest and utilize the food safely like the rest of us: it becomes toxic to them. This can apply apply to ANY food and I am often asked with amazement about the lady who had severe colitis for 22 years, just because of an intolerance of lettuce. Once she gave up the “healthy” salads, she made a full recovery! Continue reading →

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