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This is TGM post #6 and installment #3 for the topic History of Healing-History of Killing.

Mainstream Doctors Join Anti-Aging Bandwagon (MSNBC.com): Highlights the “often bitter tension” between conventional medicine (rationalist minded doctors) and the empiricist minded doctors (’anti-aging’ physicians – the largest aggregate of empirically minded contemporary ‘integrative medicine’ doctors today).

Analogy: ‘Anti-aging medicine is to FDA-approval-based medicine now as homeopathy was to allopathic medicine in the 1800s. The same vested interests don’t want to see natural, integrative medicine flourish today.

Prime therapy of concern to modern day drug companies and rationalists : Bio-identical hormones.

Hierarchy of Scientific Study Types from ‘Empiricism to Rationalism’: Case studies, animal experiments, expert opinions, descriptive reports, epidimiology studies, expert concensus, cohort or case-control analyses, non-randomized and randomized controlled trials.

Greatest Obstacle to Mainstreaming Integrative Medicine: Financial Limitations. Big Pharma has more money for: 1) marketing on mainstream media, 2) FDA/AMA/medical board schmoozing, and 3) congressional lobbying. In 2007 the pharmaceutical industry was Washington’s largest lobbying force, according to report by Center for Public Integrity. What was Pharma’s ‘ROI’? They squashed recent Congressional efforts to restrict drug media advertising.

Is ‘Anti-Aging’ Medicine ‘Just About Physicians Trying to Boost Their Income’? That’s what one ‘ivory tower’ doctor said in the MSNBC.com story. Boosting income is part of it, but more important is the steadily growing public demand for therapeutic approaches that promote health.

Are the Rationalist Drug-Oriented Doctors More Mechanically Minded/The Empiricist Integrative Medicine Doctors More Bio-Energetically Minded? One thing the MSNBC story got right was that “most conventional doctors are mechanics. They fix things.” Those are the rationalist physicians of today. Most empirically-minded doctors tend to be healers of the psyche, the nervous system, the endocrine system and the all-important immunological system ( Psychoneuroimmunology, PNI as it’s called). And which therapeutic approaches probably hold greatest promise for the future of our health, healing, prevention and ‘anti-aging’? Bioenergetic approaches.

Good Medicine Word of the Week: Anti-Aging Medicine – the realm of modern-day empiricists. But a better name is Integrative Medicine.

Next Week’s Show: 4th installment of History of Healing – History of Killing. We’ll explore how Big Pharma is in cahoots with the FDA, violating our constitutional rights.

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This is TGM post #1 and installment #1 for the topic Dropping the Bomb on Modern Medicine.

Learn the whos, whats, whens and whys of That’s Good Medicine:

Why: To teach science-based health and healing modalities – especially natural approaches – not just drugs and surgery. And to help listeners sort through the plethora of health information. Imparting health wisdom for making wiser choices.

Who: Dr. Douglass and host, Kevin Kilpatrick are introduced, as are medical social worker Kathy Jo King and audio engineer Chester Cruise. And who are in our target audience? Intelligent, open-minded baby boomers around the world (folks born between 1946 and 1964, currently between 44 and 62 years old).

What: Content will consist of ‘integrative medicine’ topics (previously called ‘alternative’ or ‘complementary-alternative’ medicine). Employing topic-specific installments (such as this ‘Dropping the Bomb’ series) we’ll look at the science behind subjects like nutrition, herbal medicine, energy medicine, stem cell therapy, body work, detoxification strategies, and lots more.

When and How Much: Weekly 15-20 minute shows.

Good Medicine Word of the Week: Integrative Medicine – integrating the best evidence-based therapies from all medical disciplines.

Next week’s show: On the second part of this 2-part Dropping the Bomb series, we’ll interview medical maverick and integrative medicine pioneer Dr. Jonathan Wright. Focus: the concept of how ‘modern man’ uses – almost exclusively – only synthetic, artificial medications in our system of disease care – drugs which are not only foreign to the body, but foreign to nature too. We’ll discuss why this has come about. Prior to the interview we’ll discuss the famous Tahoma Clinic FDA Raid of 1992 when Armed FDA agents smashed through the door of Dr. Wright’s clinic during clinic hours and confiscated patients’ records, the clinic’s computers and Dr. Wright’s medical/nutritional supplies. And what was Dr. Wright’s ‘crime’? He was administering intravenous vitamins to his patients.

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