One of my blessings is the ability to expertly discern color even in the most complex variations of hues and tones. If there’s such a thing as “Super Color Perception” — I have it in spades. I always do extremely well on “What Number Do You See?” color exams like the one you see below. Can you see the number 29 in the image? If you have red-green deficiencies, you will see 70 instead of 29. If you have total colorblindness you won’t see any numbers.
Sometimes a mother’s loving touch can heal a hurt better than a pill. Can breathing and positive thinking also make us well?
The public is far ahead of medical experts and politicians on alternative medicine. A Harvard Medical School survey done 10 years ago found that more than 40 percent of Americans used some form of alternative medicine. It’s probably higher today. The study found that Americans spent as much out of pocket for alternative treatments as they did for conventional health care.
Front-line doctors — those of us who spend all day seeing patients — are also interested in alternatives. An American Psychiatric Association official told me that when they asked their physician members what they wanted to learn, alternative medicine was high on the list. Your average doctor wants alternatives to drugs — as long as they’re backed up by good research.
How did we move from the medicine man, to shamanism, to the country doctor to the idea that a pill can heal everything? Did big pharmaceutical money ruin our natural, intrinsic, healing meme?
I have always claimed fibromyalgia is a fake disease of victimization invented by doctors to pad their bottom line by prescribing drugs to give hypochondriac patients psychological cover for a broken mind — that tries to adversely effect the body — but fails.
This week, the further proof of my argument was provided in a study indicating fifty percent of American doctors routinely prescribe placebos for their patients and similar results were reported for doctors in Denmark, Israel, Britain, Sweden and New Zealand.
Continue reading → Medical Fakery and the Intentional Placebo Effect
Sometimes technology expands just enough to cogently clear the way for expanded communication opportunities.
When Janna and I created sosASL.com as a portal for emergency communication between the Deaf and fire, police and EMT first responders, we realized it would not have been possible to create the site without the rise of technology and its seeping into every niche of the American psyche.
I am not a doctor. I never played one on TV. I have never claimed to be a medical expert on anything important.
In one of my many lives, I am a Script Doctor — but I call myself a Script Professor because I think that editorial and writing process should be evolutionary and not surgical if you really want to provide an everlasting value for the money spent.
Google already has your mind. Now Google wants your body!
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