Bad Medicine

Bad medicine TV programs, movies, before the Internet era, people lived in each other with a vibrant, exaggerated story. Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" is a good example of this entertainment. The novel details the group of pilgrims who participated in the story contest while heading for Thomas Beckett Shrine. These medieval narratives and stories vary greatly, including knights, doctors, monks and so on.

The bestselling book "Devil Economics", journalist Stephen Dubner and author of economist Steven Levitt applied economic theory to popular culture. A 16 z Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital company, reviewed a number of case studies on medical failure in a series of articles on "bad health care" (part 1, part 2, part 3) I asked. Technology-focused research podcasts are offered with academics, policies and experienced guests from the industry. Business-oriented solutions bring interesting changes to several health science themes, including wearable, quantified self, prolonging life science, the emergence of digital "pills". Wake up at Sam Harris

In the "Devil Economics" podcast, we announced a series of "bad medicine" episodes that may be stagnating in health care practice in August 2017. The problems described here can occur in many disciplines, not limited to the medical field. Information on plant meals and cancer is not in their training. Prof. T. Colin Campbell also announced a comprehensive discussion on why medicine can not achieve all that is provided in nutrition (10).

Today, our last episode "bad medicine" focuses on the determination of the treatment of the real world. When a patient gathers with a doctor or other medical professional, we will focus on the place where medical treatment is actually done. What is one of the main reasons someone of us go to see a doctor? This is easy. We are so painful. From the late 1980s to the early 1990s, it was urgent to recognize and treat pain. The ultimate promotion of pain is the fifth vital sign with body temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiratory rate. This is the only vital sign that is determined by patient self assessment, not objective measure.