Medical Politics 101

Medical Politics 101

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. –Plato (427 BC-347 BC) Today's world faces problems that are complex and complicated. The field of medicine is showing rapid progress with new discoveries, policies and paradigms [1–4] and seeing new challenges which require new and rapid responses. Consequently, medicine and health...

Health reform and politics 101 for psychiatric nurse therapists.

Medical Economics (and Politics)

G et ready! The landscape in medicine is probably going to change rapidly. The starting bell rang in December 2010 in Washington, DC, with very little fanfare when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned doctors from prescribing Avastin to patients with advanced-stage breast cancer. 1 Avastin, a potent but costly drug, has worked in some clinical trials by halting the spread of cancer and...

Medical book marketing 101: going it alone.

101: Prolegomena to a True Integrative Medical Paradigm

Babak Daneshfard, Reza Sanaye, Majid Nimrouzi. Research Center for Traditional Medicine and History of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran; Department of Traditional Persian Medicine, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran; Essence of Parsiyan Wisdom Institute, Phytopharmaceutical Technology and Traditional Medicine Incubator, Shiraz Un...