This is not photoshop. What is colon hydrotherapy, you ask? It’s an enormous enema. A Dieticians of Canada publication describes it as follows: Colonic cleansing or irrigation, touted as a treatment for cleansing the colon, involves the insertion of a rubber tube through the rectum into the large intestine. A
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Those Emergency Blues: More on When Labelling Patients Causes Patients to Die
In the comments WhiteCoat (of WhiteCoat’s Call Room fame) strenuously objects to my take on the Anna Brown case: Wow. Someone on my blog suggested that I check out this post after I just posted about this story yesterday. To all of you who think “something more should have been
Continue readingJoseph Lister, climate change and the arrogance of ignorance
Reading about the assassination of U.S President James Garfield recently, I encountered yet another example of the power and persistence of ignorance in the face of facts. Garfield was infamously killed not by his assailant’s bullets but by his doctors. He died not from his wounds but from the massive
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Abortion – Safe and Necessary
Sometimes there is a absence of reasonable discussion when it comes to the topic of abortion. The lack of solid empirical grounding for arguments leads to some rather wild and wooly debates. The Guttmacher institute has a new section called “Are you in the Know?” about women’s health and abortion.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Fighting the Stigma of Mental Illness
I was trying to think about something to blog about on this cold, wet miserable night. Then I read about the death of Joe Bodolai, the American who nurtured so many great young comedians in Canada. Who killed himself the other day by drinking a mixture of Gatorade and anti-freeze,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Cons Go After Our Medicare System
They promised they wouldn’t go after medicare. But that was then and this is now. The Conservative government is putting the provinces on notice that Ottawa plans to shrink the rate of growth in health transfers. As Finance Minister Jim Flaherty prepares to meet his provincial and territorial counterparts Monday
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What the Crap P.E.I? – No Access to Abortion/Reproductive Services?
Our friends who live on the East coast seem to be clinging to a few anachronistic views about the autonomy of women and the spectrum of choice that should be available to them when it comes to reproductive services. “Even though it’s a legal medical procedure, P.E.I. remains the
Continue readingThe Darkness Strikes Back
I’ve begun a series of video-essays on YouTube (my channel is here) titled "Welcome to our Semi-Dark Age". The first episode is now up (in three parts, due to time length restrictions by YouTube) – hopefully, my skills at video recording/editing will improve as I make more videos. Similarly, my pronunciation of English words remains a work in progress … In any case, I’ve embedded herein the
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: A Matter of Hours
I was talking the other day to young, surprisingly old-school physician who bemoaned nurses “doing things” she thought properly done by duly authorized medical practitioners. (She also implied, by-the-by, that when physicians said “Go fetch,” the proper nursely response was a demure “Yes, doctor, and do you want your neck rubbed?)” Clearly, this physician thought, […]
Dead Wild Roses: Quebec Woo-Quackery Claims yet another Victim
Worried about Big Pharma and what corporate sponsored doctors are going to do with you? Worried your tinfoil hat is one size too small and “they” are on to you? Worried and misplacing your skepticism about science based medicine? This news article from the CBC is for you. “A Quebec woman rushed to hospital after […]
Dead Wild Roses: Alternative Medicine in Action! – Wootastic!
Funny, but people who actually believe in this shite want to bring it into the hospitals. Frightening.
Filed under: Medicine, Science Tagged: Alternative Medicine, What if…, Woo
Excited Delirium: Wakefield, Ratajczak and Vaccines
Are vaccines the cause for a spike in autism? Recent research from an independent physician shows that there might be a link.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Anti-Vaccination Cranks – Lies & Deceit
Watch the intensely stupid anti-vax loonery in full bloom as they make the case for exposing your newborns to disease, because if their bodies “don’t want it” they simply won’t get sick. Their next show is on how Big Science has fooled us into believing that the earth is round… Filed under: Medicine, Science […]