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		<title>Laughing Buddha</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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It&#8217;s all fun
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		<title>Iatrogenic Disease, Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post is under construction.)
A while back I posted on the topic of &#8220;Iatrogenic Disease&#8221;, meaning, medically-caused disease. The post is here. I had a visitor comment on it and we had a back and forth. In my best judgement, this visitor did not understand the points made, although I do admit that a big [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlemedicine.wordpress.com&blog=4941316&post=442&subd=middlemedicine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I been Watchin&#8217; U</title>
		<link>http://middlemedicine.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/i-been-watchin-u/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Watchin&#8217; me
&#8230;via the stat tools in wordpress. Many of the visitors to the site either arrive here via a search term something like this: &#8220;herbal prednisone&#8221; and are directed to the one post on prednisone and herbs I have. Even many of you who arrive with a different search term end up reading that article [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlemedicine.wordpress.com&blog=4941316&post=428&subd=middlemedicine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review lesson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is often difficult for us to see ourselves. Your author himself has great difficulty being self-aware and responsive, versus self-referential and reactive. Many spiritual traditions (including Chinese Medicine) speak of how difficult it is to achieve clarity and maturity &#8211; and yet, without these qualities, our lives are very difficult to live, being full [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlemedicine.wordpress.com&blog=4941316&post=416&subd=middlemedicine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vaccination</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ My personal take on vaccination is that it is useful, when applied correctly. However, I do not feel comfortable advocating broadbrush compulsory medication for an entire population. I will be posting a series of short, to-the-point articles on vaccination over the next few weeks.
Epidemiologist Dimicheli has this to say about vaccination in general:
&#8220;Schabas claims [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlemedicine.wordpress.com&blog=4941316&post=408&subd=middlemedicine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting Tao</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 16:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Tao is precious and not to be passed on, unless the student is sincere and compassionate towards human suffering&#8221;
Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen, chapter 4, Truth from the Golden Chamber
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		<title>Top killers in U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(* Note: I made two errors when making my beautiful piechart &#8211; I cited 250,000 as the number of iatrogenic deaths, when the actual number is 280,000. I also mistakenly switched two sources for the deaths, ADRs and total injuries. Source below.)
Over a million patients are injured in U.S. hospitals each year, and approximately 280,000 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlemedicine.wordpress.com&blog=4941316&post=337&subd=middlemedicine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sugar Proven Addiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From: http://tinyurl.com/a3bbja
It would be so nice to read a headline on a study like this that goes, &#8220;Scientists confirm what we all knew&#8221;. It would lead to such a different perception of the process.
As it stands, it seems to me that we give up our self-awareness to studies like this, simply by accepting that this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlemedicine.wordpress.com&blog=4941316&post=297&subd=middlemedicine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pediatrics in 15th century China</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the opthalmology text Yin-Hai Jing-Wei (Essential Subtleties on the Silver Sea), circa 1500:
The condition &#8220;malnutrition harm in children&#8221; develops mostly in well-to-do families because such parents spoil [their offspring]. A child is like the sprout of a plant that hardly endures the impact of wind, sun, cold, and dew. Similarly, how could a child, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlemedicine.wordpress.com&blog=4941316&post=299&subd=middlemedicine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bubonic Plague</title>
		<link>http://middlemedicine.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/bubonic-plague/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the last years of the Qing Dynasty (around 1900), the bubonic plague swept through Hong Kong, then a British colony. British administrators divided patients into two groups, one of which was treated by Chinese medicine and the other by Western medicine, and evaluated the efficacy of each treatment. The first evaluation indicated that Chinese [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlemedicine.wordpress.com&blog=4941316&post=291&subd=middlemedicine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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