Boasted as one of the fastest growing companies in the nation, the Health Central Network offers a place where patients, professionals and curious individuals can learn about a variety of health conditions. Dr. Lasich joined the Health Central Network in 2008 after publishing her first book, High Heels to Hormones: A Woman’s Guide to Spine [...]
The placebo effect may be more useful than you realize. Expanding what constitutes a placebo will help you come to this conclusion. By definition, a placebo is a treatment that is believed to be effective but is actually a sham and a “placebo effect” is the response to a placebo. Placebos are used all the [...]
Which state uses the most prescription drugs? The answer is West Virginia according to a recent article on Forbes.com. What is the top selling drug? Lipitor (a cholesterol lowering drug) is the top selling drug. What are the third most used drugs in America? Antidepressants are widely used and the third leading money maker for [...]
Because we are all in a state of decline and the elder population is the largest growing demographic population, aging has become a hot topic. Hospitals and clinics are trying to figure out how best to care for the elderly. This article exams the nature of aging and its impact on healthcare. Even if “old [...]
Suffering comes in all shapes and forms, but is particularly present at the end of life. I have always said that a doctor has three great privileges: delivering a child, saving a life, and being present for death. We can all learn something from the last stage of life. This article is a must read [...]
To have surgery or not to have surgery, that is the question on many people’s minds that have back pain. Critically evaluating the risks and potential benefits is the key to determining if a surgery is necessary or advisable at all. Unfortunately, as this article points out, many surgeons will operate on anything that walks [...]
Drugs are not what healthcare is about. Health and healing are the goals of medicine.
The medical community goes to great lengths to place patients in neat little cubby holes by labeling each person with a diagnosis. A recently published study by Buitenhuis et al (Spine, 2008, Volume 33, Number 22, p 2427-2433) demonstrated that specifically believing that one’s neck pain was due to a “whiplash” injury contributed to a [...]
After seeing the doctors refuse to let my grandfather go in peace, I realized that the advanced directive forms are all a matter of interpretation. Who is to say when something is “incurable” or “irreversible”. Those loaded medical terms can be debated indefinitely while someone is lying in bed suffering on the edge of death, [...]
When medicine goes too far, His 87 years of life have been diminished, To tubes, lines, monitors, and beeping. The alarms tell the end is near. Unable to speak, unable to move; This man of honor has lost all control. No more trips to the doctor or pharmacy; He is imprisoned in their world now. [...]
