Sublime

Modern cancer surgery someday will be regarded with the same kind of horror that we now regard the use of leeches in George Washington's time.” - Dr. Robert Mendelsohn “The disease always returns after removal, and operation only accelerates its growth and fatal termination.” - Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie Velpeau, Surgeon (1795-1867) "I do not d

Mitch Katz directs the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, the second-largest county health care system in the country. He described to me how economic incentives can stack up against upstream care. “Because there’s been little money toward prevention, there’s no payer or mechanism for prevention research like there is for medical res

Specificity of diagnosis does not help the sufferer unless it can be followed by specificity of treatment,

Cancer as a Metabolic Disease,

advocate early, aggressive, and broad screening for my patients—such as colonoscopy (or other colorectal cancer screening) at age forty, as opposed to the standard recommendation of forty-five or fifty—because the evidence is overwhelming that it’s much easier to deal with most cancers in their early stages.