| Introduction | |
| Academic
Ethics pose a real threat to the patient
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| Antibiotic
Paradox Resistance to antibiotics spreads among microbes. |
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Antibiotic resistance and the intestinal flora Microbes in the gut protect us from undesired microbes. |
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| Beware
of Mammography ! Once you perform mammography, you become entangled in the worst kind of medical confusion. |
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| Beware
of the Gene The limits of Genetics |
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| Cancer
and Angiogenesis Medical sciences breed context fallacies. |
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| Cancer
and Meditation Meditation makes you aware of your healing powers. |
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| Cancer
starts as a systemic disease Cancer is a metabolically systemic disease like arteriosclerosis. |
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| Cause
and etiology of disease Disease is multi-factorial. |
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| Chromosomal
translocations in B cells of normal individuals Chromosomal translocations that accompany lymphoma were found in healthy individuals. |
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| Cloning
fallacy Cloning is a risky and unhealthy |
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| Colon
cancer is a disease of the entire colonic mucosa Field effect of colon cancer. |
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| Controlled
mutation in cancer Gene-mutations do not cause cancer. |
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| Death
Denial 'Dying' is a term used by physicians to communicate their clinical impression |
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| Doctors
and Healers Some doctors and healers may harm the patient more than cancer does. |
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| Declining
Hazard in Breast Cancer The longer one lives with cancer the better one's chances to survive |
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| Etiology There is no simple relationship between etiology and disease. |
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| False
(or incomplete) metaphor of medicine Oncology postulates that cancer behaves like infectious disease, and chemotherapy acts like antibiotics do. |
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| Gender
and Wisdom of the Body WOB determines our gender |
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| Health
measure Medicine lacks a health measure, that would guide physician how to treat best. |
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| How
to diminish microbial resistance to antibiotics Our gut microbes protect us against pathogenic microbes. |
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| How
to treat cancer "Normative Medicine" mobilizes WOB to prolong remission in cancer. |
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| How
to understand a disease Disease is an interaction between an destructive process and protective WOB. |
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| Iatrogenic
Medicine Biological theories in the medical context become harmful to the patient (iatrogenic) |
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| Inflammatory
cancers Most cancxers proceed through a pre-cancerous inflammatory phase. |
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| Long
survival with metastasis Many cancer patients carry metastasis for prolonged time in good health |
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| Making
Placebo Respectable Placebo is a powerful drug. |
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| Medicine
of Homo Faber Medicine applies laws of machines to treat disease. |
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| A
new kind of Medicine Introduction to non-linear medicine |
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| Sense
organ of the immune system Special structures in the intestinal inner lining sense antigens in our environment. |
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| Pernicious
Cachexia Not tumor, but body wasting. called cachexia, is the hallmark of cancer. |
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| Primary
care Treatment is justified only if improving health. |
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| Primum non nocere ; Above all do not harm! | |
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cancer differs from mine Medicine regards aberrations as disease, while the real criterion for disease is how the patient feels. |
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| What is health? | |
| What is neoplasia? | |
| WOB
in experimental cancer Cancer researchers are more interested in tumors, and less in processes that cause tumors to regress. |
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