September 2013

Protected: Commentary ~ SLATE.com article: TWO LIVES ~ The Disturbing & Shameful History of Childbirth Deaths

by faithgibson September 12, 2013

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XXX Links to all chapters of “Twilight Sleep: A Simple Account of New Discoveries in Painless Childbirth” Dr. JWHenry Williams

by faithgibson September 8, 2013

    Hooded & straight-jacketed labor patient medicated with Twilight Sleep drug scopolamine   Written at the request of & in collaboration with Dr. J Whitridge Williams, gynecological surgeon & Chief of Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins, by science writer, Dr Henry Smith Williams, MD Published ~ 1914 Chap 1 ~ Twilight Sleep: A Simple Account of New Discoveries […]

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Viva La EVIDENCE! ~ an extraordinary YouTube video on EBM made by an Canadian physician

by faithgibson September 7, 2013
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Lies, Damn Lies and Medical Science –> The Atlantic {Wax et al: Beware — they’ve got your number!)

by faithgibson September 4, 2013

This article in The Atlantic is available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-damned-lie… Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors—to a striking extent—still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice?   … Dr. John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science. […]

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