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We are all required to take the entirety of Pharmacy school curricula in 8 months. Our standardized board/certification exams are about 50% pharmacological kinetics and interaction questions. Additionally, the average student entering medical school now has a masters, typically in public health or a biological science.
You need to read up on what medical doctors actually are and do, it seems. Fifty years ago, your assumptions would have probably been right. However, the medical education system was revamped in the 1960s. Most doctors now are very knowledgable on drugs and alternative therapies, both prescription and homeopathic. We're required to offer alternative treatments with any plan we prescribe a patient, and are also required to divulge any conflicts of interest (paid to speak for a company, sponsored by a company, etc.) in our physician profiles every year, which are publically available on the internet in most instances. Hiding a conflict of interest can result is loss of your license and being, basically, unhireable.
Originally posted by troubleshooter
I have been communicating with one gentleman a retired specialist physician whose wife was diagnosed with cancer about two years ago...
...they went the medical route of Chemo and radiation but has now been wriiten off as untreatable...
...and sent home to die.
I was associated with Oncology while with Pharma...
...was up to date with the literature...
...and I know they had nothing but promises and short term solutions for most neoplasms...
...and will call a breakthrough when extending life by just six months.
He heard through a colleague that I had won the battle with my partners 'medically incurable' cancer and contacted me...
...he did not want my advise but just someone to talk it through with...
...because of my background in the industry...
...and because I have spent five years full time reveiwing medical and alternative approaches.
He was already following Tullio Simoncini's protocols and wanted to place a line to a strategic artery but none of his associates who he had known for years would risk their precious reputations by helping this extraodinary man help his wife...
...even though their protocols had failed...
...even though he would sign legal documents to absolve them of any responsibility.
When I posted on this tread re treating psoriasis as a fungus...
...and treating it with iodine and/or BiCarb...
...I was not speaking from theory but clinical observation...
...and I am totally aware that it goes against present medical wisdom and protocol...
...BUT IT WORKS.
I also don't buy into the 'autoimmune' hypothesis for common conditions like this...
...I think it often just a mystical way of saying 'we don't have a clue'...
...it is common medical wisdom that MS is an 'autoimmune condition'...
...but then you get this news recently...
"November 26, 2009
Possible Multiple Sclerosis Breakthrough
The Globe and Mail reports: Using ultrasound to examine the vessels leading in and out of the brain, Dr. Zamboni made a startling find: In more than 90 per cent of people with multiple sclerosis, including his spouse, the veins draining blood from the brain were malformed or blocked. In people without MS, they were not."
Internal medicine rockstar you may be but please keep an open mind...
...stuff changes and I have seen good solutions blocked by old protocols and paradigms.