Suzanne Humphries, MD

May 15, 2010

Do doctors swear an oath to the CDC?  The FDA?  The AMA?  Just who are doctors responsible to anyway?

Most doctors do swear an oath upon leaving medical school and it is named after an ancient physician named Hippocrates, who practiced medicine around 400 BCE.  The Hippocratic Oath is known to most for its promise that doctors will “do no harm”, a phrase found in its original Greek version.  Over the millennia, the Hippocratic Oath has been rewritten several times in order to suit the values of different cultures. The version most commonly used in medical school graduations today was written in 1964 by Louis Lasagna, Academic Dean of the School of Medicine at Tufts University(1). There are four parts of the oath that are worth discussing in relation to today’s medical environment:

Robert Sears, MD [pediatrician]
May 5, 2010

Today's USA Today story on the increasing trend of vaccine refusal shared some interesting information, but fell short of actually providing useful or workable answers.  The article cites a new CDC study that showed in 2003 only 22 percent of parents refused or delayed a vaccine for their child, whereas in 2008 this number soared to 39 percent.

Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD

March 2010

Two tenets of today’s health care are that a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes AIDS and vaccines are effective and safe. Investigators who have the temerity to question this official dogma see their work blocked from publication, grant requests rejected, and in one signal case can even find themselves being subjected to a Soviet-style show trial.

Robert J. Rowen, MD

March 3, 2010

Did you have the mumps when you were a child? If so, it's one of the best ways to avoid the mumps now that you're older. If you didn't have the mumps, you could be at serious risk for contracting the childhood disease - even if you've had the vaccine.As you may know, I've decried vaccines for decades. Why? They're toxic (they inject poisonous additives into you), they deny children their needed usual infections to develop a robust immune system, and now there's a third reason. Vaccines may not last a lifetime. And if they don't, you could contract the disease as an adult. Think it won't happen? Think again.