This is the weekly newsletter from the AAFP. It’s nice to see the American Academy of Family Practice embracing homeopathy. Dilution and killing lice seems intuitive. Nothing like selling out for the almighty dollar. That’s not to say I wouldn’t take the money but they are supposed to be a respectable organization. Us on the other hand….
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I dropped my membership from the AAFP after they sold out to Coca-Cola several years ago. I see that our respectable betters are still doing what they can to trivialize our specialty
People who question whether homeopathy works are simply not educated or experienced. Like questioning whether anti-biotics work.
http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/a-kind-of-magic/#more-578
Why are you so closed minded
http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/a-kind-of-magic/#more-578
Last AAFP conference I went to, as I rode from my hotel in the AAFP Prevacid bus to get my Nexium coffee and Plavix pastries (guaranteed to cause ASCVD/stent deployment/Plavix Rx), I was able to contemplate the sellout AAFP had become. So why is membership so expensive and the administrative costs so high? All we really need them to do is keep track of our CME! Any pretense of being a lobbying body supporting the interests of Family Physicians went by the wayside years ago, when they sold us up the river for MOC, MU, and all those other lovely unfunded mandates AAFP loves to “be at the table” for but do nothing about.
They will write some “threatening” letters occasionally:
“If you don’t put a stop to those awful mandates, which we thought were a good idea before, we’re going to take our medical tools and play doctor somewhere else.”
AAFP’s “support” goes way back before MOC, MU, etc. They came out strongly for Hillary Care way back in 1993.
LiceFree is 1% saline, sea water is 3% and humans are also about 1% saline.
I don’t believe in Homeopathy but they say it works even if you don’t believe in it.
There is an entire branch of Mainstream medicine that uses homeopathy. They inject micro-dilutions of things like pollen and ground up dust mites into little kids to “cure” diseases like asthma and dermatitis. They have been doing this since 1911 and have never done a clinical trial to prove it even works. In the 1970’s they added “immunology” to their name to look even cooler. They know absolutely zilch about the immune system though.
Dr Farrago may have even unsuspectingly sent patients to them!! So who are these quacks??
ALLERGISTS !! (allo-erg-ists) which in latin means studiers of other energies.
If you do some research, they are not the first major medical organization to sell out for “educational grants” and the like in the past.
Just makes it easier to travel First Class.
“they are supposed to be a respectable organization”
Excuse me while I clean the coffee off my monitor.
There is far more evidence to support the use of Licefree than there is to support EMRs, MU, PCMH, MACRA, and all the rest of the AAFP’s disasters. They are the asshole-licking, self-loathing joke of the medical world.
And someday I’ll tell you what I really think of them.
Salt???
Wouldn’t it be nice if there were lindane that worked against self-serving bureaucrats?
Years ago at an out-of-town CME conference, a buddy and I were downing some pints that evening, and he remarked that we ought to just set up a shop in the Keys and “sell crystals and beads and powders and shit” to promote health and wellness. If we had just followed that vision, we probably could’ve gotten grant money, an AAFP blessing, and sidestepped all this idiotic MOC stuff by self-designating as alternative healers. Missed the dang ol’ boat.
I don’t think homeopathy’s so far off from ABMS. Giving vast quantities of nothing at all is what the Boards specialize in. Charging money for it, too, is part of the experience. Making claims without any empirical evidence, that’s MOC in a nutshell. “Lice” is an apt metaphor for how the Big Players in healthcare view the medical provider – they should be gotten rid of because they’re irritating. Selling vastly diluted Sodium Chloride in a medical publication might have been shameful thirty years ago; now, it’s just a Guideline for everyone to believe.
“Lice” is an apt metaphor for how the Big Players in healthcare view the medical provider – they should be gotten rid of because they’re irritating.
That’s OK, the Big Players are like ticks. They suck your blood and cause nasty lingering disease.