“You can look at [healing soil] as an old wives' tale and decide it's all just superstition, or you can check into it thoroughly to see if there's anything in the soil that produces antibiotics. I prefer to check.” - Jerry Quinn in "Nature's Pharmacy" in Smithsonian Magazine To paraphrase Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman, … Continue reading Questioning Assumptions

I am a physician specializing in Preventive Medicine and Public Health. From the start of my training, I was aware that late modern medical care was unsustainable for reasons that ensued from high tech, low-trust care. When I became ill with myalgic encephalomyelitis -- one of the emerging epidemics of chronic illness -- I was … Continue reading Welcome to my website!