A wise Chinese medical doctor friend of mine made a fascinating point during a dinner conversation the other day. He said that if medicines and medical interventions were ranked according to their effectiveness, cost, invasiveness and side effects - the most effective, least costly, invasive and disruptive being the best - then placebos which produce …
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A New Health Paradigm
Not too long ago what the world now knows as Western conventional medicine didn't exist. While conventional medicine is a newborn compared to the Eastern systems of medicine, several of which have been in use for many thousands of years, its rapid ascension to becoming an internationally recognized standard is worthy of note. Three advances …
Gregory Hake 