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Why Medicine gives up on Cures

Can you see the owl, hiding in the pepper tree?  It’s not that hard, once you know what you’re looking for. But if you weren’t looking for an owl, it’s just a tree. Medicine, has given up on cures, given … Continue reading

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Defining Health, to Improve Healthiness

For centuries, medical experts and philosophers have attempted to define health, with little success. We might forgive Hippocrates for describing health “as a delicate balance of four fluids: blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm, with imbalance leading to illness,” or … Continue reading

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Mr President: “America Can’t Cure Cancer”

President Obama, I applaud your initiative to cure cancer. Joe Biden is a very capable person.  However, it is not possible for America to cure cancer today.  It is much less possible, yes, less than impossible, to cure cancer within the … Continue reading

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The Medicines Myth

What are medicines for? What do medicines do? Your first instinct might be exactly wrong “Medicines cure disease“. Isn’t that what medicines do? No, it is not. I researched the top selling prescription medicines of 2011 (you can see the list … Continue reading

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The Love Cures

Which illnesses can only be cured by love? You might be surprised. Let’s suppose you have scurvy.  You feel tired and weak all the time, irritable and miserable. You have pain in your legs, and your skin is breaking out in … Continue reading

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