Type 1 diabetes: when doctors’ good advice turns bad
By Marika Sboros Here’s a fascinating blog that throws up an ethical dilemma for doctors, nurses and dietitians who dish out orthodox advice for type [more]
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Medicine’s dirty little secret: ‘drug whore’ doctors
It’s a very real sickness in medicine. It is doctors in the thrall of the drug industry. It creates what British cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra [more]
Physician, heal thyself, learn nutrition!
Here’s a brilliant blog everyone should read – doctors, patients, perfectly healthy people. It’s why doctors need to be frogmarched back to school if necessary to [more]
Britain’s ‘fat wars’: PHC warriors take up low-carb arms
By Marika Sboros Britain’s “fat wars” are spreading, as sporadic skirmishes break out between the newly created independent Public Health Collaboration (PHC) and the establishment [more]
NOAKES: DISHING UP ‘REAL MEAL’ DIRT ON ‘DOCTORS OF DISEASE
By Marika Sboros Many doctors “have outsourced their brains to the pharmaceutical industry”, says University of Cape Town emeritus professor Tim Noakes. Ditto for dietitians who [more]
DEATH BY MEDICINE: DOCTORS WHO HARM MORE THAN HEAL
I HAVE the greatest respect for the marvels of modern medicine and doctors who practise it as a calling. I’m not much of a fan of [more]
Dr Jason Fung on doctors who betray patients’ trust
You don’t expect your doctor or dietitian to collude with food companies in spinning yarns about health benefits products. Yet it’s a common phenomenon known [more]