Posts Tagged ‘medical politics’

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Big Pharma’s unspoken influence on health care and other musings

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

In a recent NY Times article students at Harvard medical school were surprised at the extent big pharma had on their education.  In recent grades Harvard received an F for failure to disclose the conflicts of interest of their lecturers among other things.  We have discussed this topic in our podcast ‘Nemesis of Medicine‘.  This marriage of the pharma industry and medical education institutions is sadly absent from the current discussion of health care reform.

Journal of American Medical Association Dr. Catherine DeAngelis said, “The influence that the pharmaceutical companies, the for-profits, are having on every aspect of medicine…is so blatant now you’d have to be deaf, blind, and dumb not to see it.”  When seniors argue for prescription rights as if this is true medical reform we are in trouble.  The marketing machine of big pharma masked as health care is the big elephant in the room.  What we have currently in the U.S. is a disease management, symptom based model of care and it’s very expensive.
While access is one component of the discussion, we need to question access to what? (more…)

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Thoughts on Peer Review

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Listen to Peer Review Podcast

In this podcast, Portland naturopathic doctors, Dr. Greg Eckel and Dr. Greg Nigh will discuss some of the politics and problems behind the process of “peer review”.  Peer review is the process of subjecting an author’s scholarly work, research, or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are considered experts in the same field.  But, they ask, how can peer review be considered fair and unbiased when a lot of these reviewers have conflicting interests, such as receiving incentives from companies that have financial ties to what is being reviewed?  They discuss this, as well as many other flawed elements in the process of “peer review”.

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The Naturopathic Approach to Cancer

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Listen to The Naturopathic Approach to Cancer

In this podcast, Portland naturopathic doctors, Dr. Greg Eckel and Dr. Andy Swanson will give you a general overview of what exactly cancer is, and the politics that surround it.  They’ll explain to you the differences between how conventional medicine would approach cancer compared to the naturopathic approach.  Most importantly, they’ll arm you with ways to prevent cancer.

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