Those of you who got to hear me ranting about the encroachment of complementary medicine into "respectable" academic internal medicine departments might want to check out this post that just popped up from one of my favorite ID docs on the web - the venerable (or cantankerous) Mark Crislip. His puscast and quackcast podcasts are essential downloads. Ties in with our prior week journal club discussion on the placebo effect.
A snippett:
"Placebo effects can be clinically meaningful. You are receiving a SCAM based/placebo based therapy. You think you are better. Your tumor, your HIV, your rheumatoid arthritis, your asthma is unchanged and the basic pathophysiology, with its physiological consequences, metastasis, immune destruction, joint damage, lung inflammation, continues unabated and unchecked. That is good?"
The full post here.
Review of topics covered in morning report, M&m, and core conferences with links to supplemental reading material.
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