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On May 4, 2011, at 3:21 PM, Hans Pizka <[email protected]> wrote: > Are there still some people out, who can read AND understand ? I wonder ...... > ################################################ > Am 04.05.2011 um 19:12 schrieb [email protected]: > >> One can still research things on the internet - but the trouble is most >> people don't know how to research things on the internet. >> >> One simply can't trot off to the first result in google (usually wikipedia >> or some biased news article) without checking the sources. How many people >> simply go to wikipedia or a news article without going down to the bottom >> and reading through the sources to actually see what the facts are? Often >> times a news paper will report on a scientific study without accurately >> saying what the study really says, for example. Wikipedia isn't terrible, >> but it >> is only a possible beginning and not the end. >> >> Then again, I am pretty sure this problem existed before the internet - >> since before then word of mouth and rumor was usually the quickest way to >> spread news (correct or not). >> >> -William >> >> >> In a message dated 5/4/2011 12:04:20 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, >> [email protected] writes: >> >> Linda, I did not say that all these tremors come from failing nervous >> systems or >> inadequate training (horn). So we eliminate the obviously existing tremors >> as you described. >> With them we have the old problem in Western medicine: we go to treat the >> symptoms but >> fail eliminating the cause mostly, while Eastern medicine is rather going >> to remove or cure >> the cause (origin) of the disease. >> >> Any generalization in medicine is of evil as every patient is a single >> case. But this is not >> good business wise. Right. Simply buying a missing chemical & swallow >> them, well, that >> is a good business. Curing several diseases for several patients the same >> time with a single cure, >> is big business. Writing about human abnormalities is big business as >> well. The simpler written >> the bigger the sale. Clear. >> >> But is this in the interest of humanity ? >> But we all have a brain with an enormous storage place for data. We just >> should train & >> use it. And this seems to exceed most humans capabilities. Such the world. >> >> And at last, the richer we become, the lesser we will use the brain. >> If you are poor, you have no other choice than using your brain to survive. >> >> When I studied, we had no internet giving a multiple of answers. We had to >> go to the libraries & find >> in the books what we needed, but with the side effect, that we read a lot >> of other things too >> enriching our knowledge. >> ###################################################### >> Am 04.05.2011 um 17:18 schrieb Linda Harris: >> >>> I have a few more comments on treating tremors--from the perspective of >>> an obstetrician-gynecologist. The only thing that my being a >>> gynecologist has to do with this discussion is that I try to practice >>> evidence-based medicine. There are times when I use alternative >>> treatments that do not have lots of data behind them, but I make sure to >> >>> inform the patient of this and warn them that this may or may not help, >>> and that we don't have long-term data about safety. >>> Two big points: >>> 1. Tremors have a very long differential diagnosis list, ranging from >>> Parkinsons to brain tumors to anxiety to familial tremors to things I've >>> completely forgotten since my long-ago graduation from medical school >>> and all the new diagnoses added since then. This was mentioned on the >>> list, but then forgotten, as tremors seem to subsequently have all been >>> lumped together. There is not going to be any single treatment for >>> tremors that works for all. Even if you've got it figured out and >>> correctly diagnosed as, say, "familial tremor", you're not going to >>> cure it, but you may find better ways to live with it. Hans, mental >>> work and physical training are great tools, especially for helping with >>> overall playing and living. But they are unlikely to help most >>> tremors--except those that are anxiety-based or which get worse with >>> anxiety. Even then, if there's an underlying disease, it will likely >>> proceed inexorably. Some tremors respond to beta blockers, and others >>> don't. >>> 2. Having a treatment that's biologically plausible is a long ways from >>> having a treatment that's effective. In the 80's, Virginia Dalton was a >>> big proponent of natural progesterone treatment for PMS. Thousands of >>> women extolled its virtues, and lots of gynecologist prescribed it. >>> There's a lot of good theory about why it might work. But when >>> double-blind, placebo-controlled studies were done, it was found to be >>> completely ineffective. It's never used anymore. There are hundreds of >>> other examples. >>> Zinc may be biologically plausible, and is relatively safe and >>> low-cost. Feel free to try it, but I'm very skeptical about its >>> efficacy. We also don't know what kind of tremors the individuals had >>> who appeared to benefit. >>> I confess I don't read every listing, so I apologize if I'm duplicating >>> ideas. >>> Linda Harris >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> post: [email protected] >>> unsubscribe or set options at >> https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/hpizka%40me.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> post: [email protected] >> unsubscribe or set options at >> https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/valkhorn%40aol.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> post: [email protected] >> unsubscribe or set options at >> https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/hpizka%40me.com > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/lzyla%40suddenlink.net _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
