None of us is spared pain in our lives, whether it be the pain of being born, the pain of losing a loved one, the pain that comes from illness, […]
Tag: alternative medicine
Chinese Medicine vs. Medical Acupuncture
It is not uncommon for prospective patients to call my office and ask whether or not I am a “medical doctor.” Typically, this question stems from the fact that some […]
Is there more to trauma than one’s memory?
What would you make of a drug that aims to deal with traumas and shocks by reducing or eliminating one’s memory of the traumatic event? Would forgetting the trauma negate […]
HPV/Cervical Cancer Vaccine
The issue of vaccines is a heated one, and this blog entry is not meant to be a discussion or analysis of the efficacy or morality of vaccines in general. […]
Are we as healthy as our grandparents?
It often strikes me in my practice that I (and many others in my profession) are encountering significant illness and weakness in younger and younger people as the years go […]
Paradigm (cont’d)
Back to the idea of what makes a system of medicine effective. Looking at one’s paradigm for perceiving imbalance, does one look to the past, present or future? Blood tests, […]
Paradigm
A medicine cannot be truly effective without a successful paradigm. By that I mean, how can a system of medicine diagnose, treat, and heal an illness that it cannot even […]