DOUBLE-BLINDED MEDICINE: When Doctor and Patient Are Both in the Dark DOUBLE-BLINDED MEDICINE: When Doctor and Patient Are Both in the Dark I met a dermatologist the other day who made my skin crawl. He was in his thirties, tall, lean, and unsmiling, like many doctors these days. But what stood out most was a […]
Doctor, Please Treat Me Like a Dog! Since The beginning of time there has been disease and various ways to relieve it. It seems that every culture developed its own mythology of how disease occurred and an accompanying mythology of how treatment modalities word work. What is even more impressive is that most, if not […]
CT Angio Training – Calming The Fears of Going to the Doctor Going to the doctor can be a scary ordeal, especially if your doctor finds something that they think requires additional testing. The testing part itself is usually not the most stressful part of the whole process. For many people, the waiting and wondering […]
Diagnosing Fibromyalgia: Tests Your Doctor Should Run in the Course of Your Treatment Fibromyalgia is often missed or misdiagnosed for a number of reasons. There aren’t definitive blood tests or X-ray to diagnose Fibromyalgia and it shares symptoms with many other diseases and conditions. Diagnosing Fibromyalgia is a combination of taking the patient’s symptom history, […]