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America's Crisis of Contempt8 Ways to Fight Climate Change
Is Your Doctor OK?
1. Become a vegetarian, or better yet a vegan.
2. Eat organic. 3. Buy local. 4. Easy on the heat and AC. 5. Line dry your clothes. 6. Walk and ride your bike. 7. Reduce and reuse before recycle. 8. Offset your carbon emissions. Calculate and offset your emissions at climateneutralnow.org A Movie to Make Patients and Doctors Smile
Ten Ways to Fight HateA thoughtful guide from the folks at the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Why Your Teenager Thinks You Are An Idiot!
Book Describes How American Medicine Became Big Business!
Read this book. Insist that your doctors read this book!
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Guns Kill People!
Beware of Dr. Oz- Modern Day Snake Oil Salesman
Medical researchers at the University of Alberta have two words of advice about the recommendations on medical talk shows: be skeptical. In a new study in the British Medical Journal, they found only one-third of the recommendations on Dr. Mehmet Oz’s hugely popular syndicated show and about half those on The Doctors were supported by believable or somewhat believable evidence.
Big Pharma Doesn't Want You to Know the True Value of Drugs |
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A Time for Transparency in Medical Costs!
Common Sense Family Doctor- My favorite medical blog
Unnecessary Screening Leads to Overdiagnosis
Pharma Money
This John Oliver video is funny and on the mark.
Is Pharma America's New Mafia?
A thoughtful, provocative article from The Daily Beast.
Who Do We Trust?
Former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell, to conclude, “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines.”
A Thought
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. Thomas Szasz