page_title: Mark Crislip
section_title: Writings
hierarchical_section_title: Mark Crislip / Writings
caption_attribution_description: English: Mark Crislip gives a talk at QED Con 2014 on Supplements, Complementary and Alternative Medicines (SCAMs).
context_page_description: Mark Alden Crislip is an infectious disease doctor in Portland, Oregon and chief of infectious diseases at Legacy Health hospital system. Crislip hosts the QuackCast podcast. He also produces two other podcasts, has written and edited several books, and regularly writes for medicine-related blogs. He is a co-founder of the Institute for Science in Medicine as well as a co-founder and the current president of the Society for Science-Based Medicine.
context_section_description: Crislip is an editor of and writes biweekly posts for the Science-Based Medicine blog. There, he writes on investigating the claims of alternative medicine. 
  He is the co-editor, along with Steven Novella and David Gorski, of a 12-volume series of Science-Based Medicine Guides, based on posts from the Science-Based Medicine blog.
  He also posts several times a week on a blog for Medscape called Rubor, Dolor, Calor, Tumor. He compiled selections from his Medscape blog into two e-books titled Puswhisperer: A Year in the Life of an Infectious Disease Doc and Puswhisperer Part Deux: Another Year of Pus.
  He is also the author of a medical app for Android and iPhone called Infectious Disease Compendium: A Guide to Infectious Diseases.
  Skeptic magazine published an article by Crislip in 2008 titled "Near Death Experiences and the Medical Literature," in which he criticized a Lancet article that reported on near-death experiences without considering all the physiological factors that may have accounted for patients' subjective experiences.
caption: Mark Crislip at the QED Conference 2014
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