General
SELLING SICKNESS AND RIGHT CARE
Kim and I (LT) attended the 2nd Lown Conference “From Avoidable Care to Right Care” in Boston last week. This event marked the end of a high water mark year for multidisciplinary conferences on overdiagnosis […]
HORMONE HOAXES FOR LADIES AND GENTS
It’s not just women’s problem anymore. As a feminist, I (LT) have watched for decades the worrisome news about the safety of reproductive hormones for menopause symptoms, pre-menstrual complaints, and oral contraceptives. The history of the use and marketing of […]
DR. LEANA WEN. REMEMBER THAT NAME!
Dr. Leana Sheryle Wen is all of 30 years old, but she is a speed demon of accomplishment and, if I may say, a beacon of light in our new selling sickness movement. Her two […]
PARTNERSHIP LECTURE IN WASHINGTON
KW and LT presented a live-streamed “National Grand Rounds” on October 19, 2013 at the annual conference of the National Physicians Alliance in Washington titled Challenging the Selling of Sickness: A New Partnership Movement of Professionals and […]
WE ARE NOT ANECDOTES; WE MATTER
I (KW) have been thinking lately about the importance of personal stories/narratives in our partnership work at Selling Sickness. It fits with one of the principles at the core of our partnership model — mutual […]
COERCIVE WELLNESS
Penn State administrators recently introduced a new health plan requiring nonunion employees (faculty, clerical staff) to visit their doctors for an annual checkup, undergo several biometric tests (fasting lipid profile and fasting glucose (finger stick), […]
MINDLESS
One of my favorite writers, Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker, this week takes on the excesses of neurobiological explanations in an essay called “Mindless.” He describes how neuroscience often merely restates the obvious in […]
