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
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George Bernard Shaw regards Lourdes: "All those canes, braces and crutches, and not a single glass eye, wooden leg, or toupee
- p47 Ch 2 The Vitamin Craze: Linus Pauling's Ironic Legacy
- 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