The Role of Medicine
The Role of Medicine In 1979 Dr. Thomas McKeown published THE ROLE OF MEDICINE–Dream, Mirage or Nemesis. Dr. McKeown stated that 92% of the increase in longevity achieved in the 20the century came not from Medicine but from improved sanitation and adequate food and protein! A review of the book by Dr. Franz Inglefinger, editor […]
Active vs Placebo
Active vs PlaceboC. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D. I have often said there is no drug as good a placebo! That is, the “average” placebo effect is 35%. To be as good as the placebo, a drug would need to be 70% effective. Here is a great example, from a two page ad in the JAMA, […]
Death is Not A Side Effect
Death is Not A Side Effect DEATH is not a “Side Effect” C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D. Every known drug has a significant list of “side effects”, an oxymoron created by the PharmacoMafia to make the COMPLICATIONS seem minor! The July, 2000 JAMA reported that 106,000 Americans DIE each year from PRESCRIBED drugs. Many of […]
Statins – The Great Unethical Experiment
STATINS Statins—The Great Unethical Experiment C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D. Just as the use of nuclear energy is insane until a safe way is found to dispose of it, the use of statin drugs may be the biggest yet PharmacoMafia flim flam attack on health. I have long said I would not take a statin […]
Medical Misdiagnosis
MEDICAL MISDIAGNOSIS Medical Misdiagnosis C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D. Why Doctors So Often Get It Wrong – New York Times www.nytimes.com/2006/02/22/business/22leonhardt.html “With all the tools available to modern medicine — the blood tests and M.R.I.’s and endoscopes — you might think that misdiagnosis has become a rare thing. But you would be wrong. Studies of […]
Future of Energy Medicine
FUTURE OF ENERGY MEDICINE The Future of Energy Medicine C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D. The concept of Energy Medicine began officially when Dr. Elmer Green and a few colleagues founded the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy Medicine just a few decades ago. No one title has so perfectly integrated all healing modalities. […]
Scientific Mainstream and Conventional Medicine
SCIENTIFIC MAINSTREAM AND CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE THE SCIENTIFIC MAINSTREAM & CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D Medscape recently had an article “Is CAM always a Scam?” The gist of the discussion was that a majority of the panel speakers were truly IGNORANT—ignoring facts! Most were opposed to &/or considered alternative practitioners quacks. Now I ask […]
Medical & Counseling Intuition
MEDICAL & COUNSELING INTUITION C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D. In 1973 I received a $50,000 grant from a Fortune 500 company to study “psychic diagnosis”, with the caveat that I could not mention their name. I had a ball visiting and testing around the country 75 individuals who had a reputation of being intuitively helpful. […]
Pimps for the Pharmacomafia
PIMPS FOR THE PharmacoMafia C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D. It is no longer news that many “leaders” in psychiatry are paid by the PharmacoMafia to inflate results to get an increasing number of people on their mostly dangerous and useless drugs. On June 2, BBC released the latest recommendations from The Wolfson Institute by none […]
CAFFEINE AND DIABETES
CAFFEINE & DIABETES C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D. Everyone knows that excess sugar, excess calories and obesity are major contributors to the near epidemic of Type 2 diabetes. Pop and sugar junk food are certainly major factors. Now we know that caffeine may be a potent risk factor in the develpment of diabetes. And we […]