Incurable me
Subtitle: why the best medical research does not make it into clinical practice
By: K. Paul Stoller, MD
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781510707986
Subjects: Medicine; Business and medicine; Research; Clinical practice
Description: In Incurable Me, a maverick physician brings transparency to some of medicine's most closely guarded secrets. As he establishes a link between commerce and medical research, K. P. Stoller also explains how to treat some of the most worrisome diseases and conditions afflicting humans today--including Lyme disease, brain trauma, dementia, and autism. Dr. Stoller maintains that the best evidence in medical research is not incorporated into clinical practice unless the medical cartel has the potential to make large amounts of money promoting the results of the research. Stoller takes his provocative argument a step further, maintaining that if specific research conflicts with a powerful entity's financial interests, the likely result will be an effort to suppress or distort the results. Stoller cites numerous examples, including corporate influence on GMO labeling and public health. Stoller also explores how "revolving-door-employment" between the Centers for Disease Control and large pharmaceutical companies can affect research results--as well as our health.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-190) and index.
Table of contents: title: Normalized failure; title: The house of lyme; title: Dementia : are we all getting dicofo(o)l'ed?; title: The dystopic war on discernment, or human colony collapse disorder (thanks for all the fish!); title: Multiple sclerosis and inflammatory bowel disease, or what a pile of...; title: Traumatic brain injury and hyperbaric oxygen therapy; title: Mercury in medicine; title: quacks, quackery, and quacksalber; title: The religion of jabism; title: a special chapter on vaccines; title: On diagnosing and treating toxic/infectious/immune encephalopathy and other chronic illness.