By Dr. Andrew Weil Original Post published at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-weil-md/disease-mongering-good-fo_b_275616.html In “Should You Get Your Drug Information From an Actor?” I discussed the pharmaceutical industry’s egregious practice of using celebrity-driven, prime time television commercials to promote drugs directly to consumers. Illegal in most of the world — and legal in this country only since 1985 — [...]
This article originally published at: By Dr. Andrew Weil The query gripping the nation: “How do we reform health care?” But I don’t hear anyone asking a far more essential question: “What is health?” Given that we all want health and spend trillions to “care” for it, it’s sobering how little thought we give to [...]
This article originally posted at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-weil-md/lets-take-the-stomachache_b_257434.html. By Dr. Andrew Weil In discussing health care reform, it’s easy to become mired in statistics and abstractions, so let’s examine it in personal terms. Here’s the story of a patient I saw recently that provides a specific example of what medicine does now — and what, in my [...]
