Tag: Cleanse

• Staying in Touch

  In the endless dark of night, belief that there will be a morning is sometimes all that sustains us. Hope springs eternal in the human breast, as Alexander Pope declared in one of his essays -and that is occasionally all there is. When Medicine fails, the understandable temptation is to turn to alternatives; when inductive […]

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  August 15, 2015

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  Alexander Pope, alternative medicine, Canadian Medical Association Journal, cell phone, Cleanse, colonics, deductive reasoning, detox, enema, Hope, Hope springs eternal, inductive reasoning, medicine, probiotics, retention enema, Scientific method, texting, toxins

• The Cleanse

  Sometimes, if I have the chance, I like to review the list of referral letters before I see any patients for the day. It tells me what to expect; how to allocate the time for the consultations; whether any of them might be particularly interesting. Surprises happen. The other day, one letter about a patient caught my attention. […]

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  September 18, 2014

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  Chronic yeast infection, Cleanse, Colon Cleanse, Confirmation bias, correlation does not equal causation, fecal microbiome, medical journals, medical treatments, patients, referral letters, Spurious Correlations, toxins