An Excerpt from a commentary entitled: “The Legend of Evidence-Based Medicine”

“Healthcare was never meant to end the suffering of our world, or the pain and trials of human existence, but to act alongside law, religion, and politics to guide us toward the general direction of evolution, of growth, of a god. At its simplest, healthcare is a belief system that continues to develop as long as time continues to flow, nudging us to let go of that which does not work and accept that which does, encouraging us to abandon our attempts to rescue the patient or ourselves from the life we are living or the death we cannot escape.”

A Excerpted Commentary for Members
From THE BRIDGE Newsletter of OIRF
Published May 15, 2007

From the Column “Backtalk” by Bill Benda, MD
Integrative Medicine, Vol. 6, No. 2, Apr/May 2007

© Copyright 2007, Dr. Bill Benda, IMCJ, California, USA

About the author

Dr. Bill Benda, MD

William Benda, MD, is a practicing emergency medicine physician, lecturer, writer, and researcher committed to the integration of alternative and conventional medicine. He is the first medical doctor to be elected to the Board of Directors of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians and currently teaches at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine. His clinical work has focused on patients with breast cancer, animal-assisted therapy, and physician health and well-being; his research on equine-assisted therapy for children with cerebral palsy has been funded by the National Institutes of Health. He serves as Associate Editor of both the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine and Integrative Medicine—A Clinician’s Journal.

Related Articles

  • Flu Vaccine Efficacy

    “One topic that is too often ignored in the many stories about pandemics and bird flu is how very disruptive a pandemic like the [...]

    February 15, 2007|Points of Interest (Articles)|

  • The Truth About Aspartame

    Web Watch “While working for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, I monitored two major projects for FDA, in addition to other product investigations. [...]

    October 15, 2008|Points of Interest (Articles)|

  • Fewer Breast Cancer Patients

    Through a decline in use of Hormone Therapies Since the summer of 2002 American women have clearly taken fewer hormone replacement therapies. And some [...]

    May 15, 2007|Points of Interest (Articles)|

  • Scientists Break the Speed Limit

    Commentary submitted by Dr. Brian L. Mac Coy The field of physics worships at the altar of c, the velocity of light. It is [...]

    October 15, 2007|Points of Interest (Articles)|

Sign-up to receive updates sent straight to your inbox