Paul Offit Books
Do you Believe in Magic?
The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine
Paul A. Offit, M.D. - Multco Hollywood 615.5 o328d 2013
- p1 42%/6000 hospitals offer some form of alternative therapies
p3 M.D. wife Bonnie Fass-Offit
p3 benign Cutaneous Blue Ne .vus syndrome mimics malignant melanoma, fools most dermatologists
- p4 loss of cartilage beneath kneecap, surgery and 1 year recovery
- p4 enlarged prostate, most men with prostate cancer die of something else first, while surgery is brutal
p5 Chiropractic manipulations can lead to injuries, acupuncture to infection, some megavitamins increase cancer risk
p7 Introduction: Saving Joey Hofbauer
p7 laetrile
- p7 1977 Oct 5 neck lump in 7yo Joey Hofbauer, ome swollen lymph gland
- p8 Cancer of lymph glands, radiation and chemotherapy 95% chance of recovery
p11 laetrile "treatment" by psychologist Michael B. Schachter
- p13 after six months of unconventional treatments, Joey had 17 swollen lymph glands, liver damage (megadose vitamin A), possible cyanide poisoning
p14 Laetrile Robert BradfordJohn Birch Society
p15 William D. Kelley Clinic Mexico Steve McQueen (smoker, asbestos exposure in the marines) pleural mesothelioma died age 50
p16 N Engl J Med 1977;296:1167-1168 May 19 (not 26) 1977, Laetrilomania
p17 Judge rules alternatives adequate . p18 Joey dies 1980 July 10, McQueen dies 1980 Nov 7
p18 Charles Moertel teams at Mayo, UCLA, Sloan-Kettering study 178 cancer patents on laetrile and high dose vitamins
- no stabilization or improvement, median survival 4.8 moths, "... not justified", FDA bans laetrile in 1987
p21 Fringe group National Health Federation criticised by American Cancer Society and Quackwatch
p25 Ch 1 Recovering the Past: Mehmet Oz and His Superstars
p25 Mehmet Oz Dr. Oz Show
p29 Benjamin Rush bloodletting hastened death of George Washington (with Epiglottitis) and Benjamin Franklin
p30-31 John Snow cholera Robert Koch anthrax Alexander Fleming penicillin Oswald Avery DNA James Lind scurvy
p32 Dr. Oz faith healer Issam Nemeh patient Cathy with worrisome lung CT, miraculously cured "cancer" (but no biopsy), probably infection
p33 George Bernard Shaw regards Lourdes: "All those canes, braces and crutches, and not a single glass eye, wooden leg, or toupee
p33 Pamela Miles theraputic touch
p34 9yo Emily Rosa debunks therapeutic touch, published in JAMA
p36 James Randi says strategies are hot reading and cold reading
p37 Oz's superstars of Alternative Medicine, Andrew Weil and Deepak Chopra
p39 Samuel Hahnemann 1790 homeopathy and Daniel David Palmer 1896 chiropractic manipulation
- p40 Oz offers instruction book for life, personalized ancient wisdom
p41 "2012" catastrophe movie (2009) promotes "ancient wisdom"
- p41 orthodox medicine constantly changing (learning) while alternative medicine same over hundreds of years
- p42 mainland China only 18% rely in alternative medicines, acupuncture almost solely by the rural poor
p42 Hippocratic Oaths : Medicine and Its Discontents by Raymond Tallis
p42 Snake Oil And Other Preoccupations by John Diamond
p47 Ch 2 The Vitamin Craze: Linus Pauling's Ironic Legacy
- 13 vitamins, 9 soluble
B₁ thiamine B₂ niacine B₃ niacin B₅ pantothenic acid B₆ pyrodoxine B₇ biotin B₉ folic acid B₁₂ cobalamin C ascorbic acid
- 4 insoluble
A retinol D calciferol E tocopherol K phylloquinone
p65 Ch 3 The Supplement Industry Gets a Free Pass: Neutering the FDA
p94 Ch 4 Fifty-One Thousand esotheliomaNew Supplements: Which Ones Work?
p111 Ch 5 Menopause and Aging: Suzanne Somers Weighs In
p128 Ch 6 Autism's Pied Piper: Jenny McCarthy's Crusade
p140 Ch 7 Chronic Lyme Disease: The Blumenthal Affair
p163 Ch 8 Curing Cancer: Steve Jobs, Shark Cartilage, Coffee Enemas, and More
p173 Ch 9 Sick Children, Desperate Parents: Stanislaw Burzynski's Urine Cure
p197 Ch 10 Magic Potions in the Twenty-First Century: Rashid Buttar and the Lure of Personality
p223 Ch 11 The Remarkably Powerful, Highly Underrated Placebo Response
p241 Ch 12 When Alternate Medicine Becomes Quackery
p253 Epilogue: Albert Schweitzer and the Witch Doctor: A Parable