Thinking around pharmaceutical-oriented medicine
posted 6-19-2014 9:50 p.m.

 
(Note: this post is addressed mainly to health care professionals and to the wonderful nurses on 7West at Advocate Christ Medical Center, but it’s also of interest to patients and consumers. It’s longer, too, because a typical blog post a few paragraphs long wouldn’t adequately describe either the problem or the solution. So bear with me, and all will be revealed. Thanks.)


You never know how good your hospital really is until you need it. Mine’s very good, based on objective criteria. But even an excellent hospital that does all the right things 99.9 percent of the time can still have blinders on about certain ways in which it practices medicine. It’s a question of medical mindset.

It turns out continuing education is failing our health care professionals – and, thereby, patients – when it comes to knowing about nutraceuticals and how the foods and beverages we consume can help or hurt our medical care. Instead, physicians and nurses rely too much on marketing material from Big Pharma. That’s a mistake.