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A Bad Day for CAM and patients: First CAM Group Caves-in to ACCME’s Extortion/Re-education

A Bad Day for CAM and patients: First CAM Group Caves-in to ACCME’s Extortion/Re-education

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Regrettably, members of a heretofore prominent CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) physician group who attended its 2016 conference will soon be advised that they received “invalid information” from several of the lecturers, and that the incorrect information should not be used to make clinical recommendations. The “incorrect” information comes from some of the most respected, best credentialed and most published practicing physicians and educators in the CAM field. Because I was given this information in confidence, I cannot reveal the…

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Maybe it’s time for the health concerned multitudes to come together, throw their weight around and change things up

Maybe it’s time for the health concerned multitudes to come together, throw their weight around and change things up

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Per my two last posts, the CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) community is under attack on at least two fronts. First, several CAM professional or issue related organizations have recently been subjected to corrective action regarding their CME accreditation for their annual conferences. Some of their last year’s conference CME’s have been retroactively rescinded, they have had their future conference CME accreditation withdrawn, and/or the groups have been warned to conform to “evidence based medicine,” code for conventional medical practice….

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Can CAM Docs Legally Prescribe and Sell Herbals and Nutritional Supplements as Therapy without Bad Things Happening? Prescribe, YES. Sell? WE’LL SEE

Can CAM Docs Legally Prescribe and Sell Herbals and Nutritional Supplements as Therapy without Bad Things Happening? Prescribe, YES. Sell? WE’LL SEE

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Many CAM and integrative doctors recommend and/or sell all kinds of nutritional and herbal products to their patients. There is a supplement manufacturer sub-industry which only sells to physicians and other health care professionals, for resale to patients. And most of the top tier, high profile docs have their own private label supplement brands. That’s a fact. But is it legal and ethical to do so? Legal is a matter of state law. But for better, (but mostly) for worse,…

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The Next Big CAM Battle is Here and it’s Ugly

The Next Big CAM Battle is Here and it’s Ugly

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CAM or integrative medicine doctors have had their problems with the state medical boards. And CAM organizations have had their run-ins with governmental agencies. However, the groups have always survived in large part because they have had a steady income from membership dues and from their annual conferences, where their members learn the latest and greatest from their thought leaders. But the CAM organizations’ income stream is now in jeopardy, and thus so is their existence, based on what looks…

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Finally, Some Intelligent Action by the Cali Anti SB 277 Community!

Finally, Some Intelligent Action by the Cali Anti SB 277 Community!

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I’ve been a vocal opponent of all of the anti-SB 277 constitutional lawsuits. The most recent one was a federal lawsuit filed in mid-November, 2016, in Los Angeles, and dismissed by the federal district court in January 2017. I think all of these lawsuit were (and will be if more are filed) a terrific waste of time and money. As I have repeatedly said, as long as the medical consensus is that 1. Vaccines are safe and 2. Herd immunity…

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Burzynski and the Texas Medical Board’s Upcoming Face Off: It’s Time for the Texas Legislature to Complete the Medical Board Fix

Burzynski and the Texas Medical Board’s Upcoming Face Off: It’s Time for the Texas Legislature to Complete the Medical Board Fix

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On March 3, 2017, the Texas Medical Board (TMB) will decide on a sanction for Stanislaw Burzynski, M.D. Ph.D. in the current case against him. Because I am his long-time former attorney who handled both of his prior medical board cases and was the attorney on this case until a few months before the hearing, I have a unique perspective. But there’s a caveat: I am still bound by the attorney/client privilege. However, it’s a free country, and I can…

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Hey Mr. President: how about some quickie executive orders on prescription drug importing, stem cells, and vaccination

Hey Mr. President: how about some quickie executive orders on prescription drug importing, stem cells, and vaccination

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Mr. President: looks like you’ve kept your word so far on Obamacare by signing a vague executive order allowing federal government agencies to do what they can to lower the costs or make more efficient whatever the agencies can figure out they can do without congressional approval. Hopefully that will work out. I have a couple of ideas for some quickie executive orders, consistent with your campaign speeches or your thinking. As always, I’ll keep it short: 1. Consumers importing…

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Hey Robert Kennedy Jr: Congrats and here’s a suggested first topic for the vaccine commission: Are aluminum adjuvants in childhood vaccines harming kids?

Hey Robert Kennedy Jr: Congrats and here’s a suggested first topic for the vaccine commission: Are aluminum adjuvants in childhood vaccines harming kids?

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Robert: congrats on your appointment as head of Trump’s vaccine study commission. I think the commission is a terrific idea, and there couldn’t be a better choice than you. I’m sure you’re getting a good laugh about how concerned and “alarmed” the pro-vaxxers are at your appointment. They’re trying to calm the true believers by pointing out all that Trump can’t do in terms of changing vaccine policy. But Robert, there’s one thing you can do, and it will scare…

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There is no Cali. mandatory childhood vaccination YET, but it may be coming

There is no Cali. mandatory childhood vaccination YET, but it may be coming

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Vaccine concerned (VC) folks decry the recent loss of the personal belief exemption via SB 277, and feel like they’ve been abducted to some kind of communist state. (But hey, ever been to Berkeley!) The present legal reality is that we don’t have mandatory or forced vaccinations here. Rather, vaccines are required for people to engage in certain institutional activities; e.g., kids who want to go to school, or adults who want to work with kids or in health care….

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Cali. Medical Board makes it official: Docs who write non- standard-of-care medical exemptions will be prosecuted, (but maybe not)

Cali. Medical Board makes it official: Docs who write non- standard-of-care medical exemptions will be prosecuted, (but maybe not)

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vaccineimage The elimination of the PBE (personal belief exemption) via SB 277 has put a lot of pressure on vaccine concerned California pediatricians to write medical exemptions for the children of vaccine concerned parents. The recently dismissed San Diego federal anti-SB 277 lawsuit showed that at least one school board is collecting information about the docs who write these medical exemptions and will forward the information to the medical board for prosecution. Based on some non-binding legislative history, and some…

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