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By: Katy G

Katy G — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:32:36 +0000

He does have some wonderful information about eating real food rather than crap made in a lab. an old chinese proverb says: “Those who take medicine and neglect their diet waste the skill of the physician.”

By: trish

trish — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:09:10 +0000

He’s kind of a sweet cult of personality type. but oh my, the money!

By: dieta

dieta — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:22:09 +0000

Weil: Yes, but the priorities of insurance reimbursement are completely backward. We happily pay for interventions, diagnostic tests, and drugs, but we don’t pay for doctors to sit down and teach patients how to eat or how to relax. We talk about prevention, but that’s not where the money is going. One way to change those priorities is to conduct outcomes-and-effectiveness studies. Let’s look at five or ten common ailments that now cost us huge sums of money, such as type 2 diabetes or chronic back pain. Because conventional medicine has no magic-bullet treatment for these conditions, people often try complementary and alternative therapies. We could compare conventional treatment with integrative treatment (which might make selective use of conventional medicine) and assess medical outcomes and costs. I’m quite certain that integrative approaches would produce better results at lower costs. If we could get the data and show it to the people who pay for the nation’s healthcare, then they might change their reimbursement policies and start to pay for preventive and integrative medicine.

By: Famdoc in MA

Famdoc in MA — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:51:56 +0000

I thought he gave a decent address as well, and only spoke in broad terms. I was surprised that during the q/a session no one stood up ask him about some of his more controversial claims and his promotion of a supplement line. I don’t think you can honestly rail against high costs in healthcare if you are personally promoting expensive and unproven treatment adjuncts.