Rants from a Nurse Practitioner.

  As the Reader may know, a while back my friend, a internist, cooked up a scheme for us to open an Integrative Medicine Clinic together.  This would be a clinic where we would prescribe herbs and nutritional supplements as often as we would prescribe medications, and where acupuncture and massage would be employed with as much frequency as, say, physical … [Read more...] about The Marcus Welby Syndrome

After better than a quarter of a century of having an addiction to “doing something that matters”, and focusing primarily on patients with severe and chronic illness within the Medical Industrial Complex, about a year ago I was given the opportunity to switch gears.  The new venture was in Integrative Medicine, which has been practiced in Europe and Asia … [Read more...] about On Holistic Medicine

   People are growing more and more suspicious of prescription drugs.  For one thing, many of those medications cost a fortune.  Despite the fact that the United States Veteran’s Administration buys much of its formulary from Canada, the Bushies tried to make it illegal for mom and pop to order them online from that same country.  Bunch of … [Read more...] about Big Pharma and YOU

  Medicine is mysticism.   It’s amazing how much of it is based on faith.  That’s why another nurse practitioner that I know got in trouble.  Although she is and was a very good clinician, she was lacking in one thing:  being a doctor.  So, she got an online PhD, probably pissed some people off, and got called on the carpet … [Read more...] about Medicine is Mysticism