Food as Medicine: Applying an Old Adage in a New Way
As Mark Hyman succinctly stated in his concluding statement at the Food As Medicine conference at Bethesda, Maryland (June, 2012), “It’s not ‘Food As Medicine.’ It’s ‘Food Is Medicine’.” As a physician, I was taught to rely on prescription, pharmaceutical medications. I made a big leap of faith when I changed my paradigm and began using […]
The Simple Idea That Is Transforming Health Care (WSJ article, April 18, 2012))
The Wall Street Journal wrote an article called “The Simple Idea That is Transforming Health Care. I like simple ideas, so I read the article. The simple idea is about clinicians asking patients how their health is affecting their quality of life. Imagine that. One patient in the article had severe asthma for over 25 […]
Drug Shortage Unravels Lives: Alternative Approaches in Demand
Hi Dr Lee, I read the following article and thought about you. http://vitals.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/15/9472468-lingering-shortage-of-adhd-drugs-unravels-lives One of my motivations during our process was the realization that I needed (or should) keep a separate “stash” of Effexor at work in case of an emergency (i.e. earthquake, terrorist incident, etc). It really hit home that it was necessary for me […]
New York Times Article: A Drug Maker’s Playbook Reveals a Marketing Strategy
The following article by the New York Times highlights one of the problems in medicine today that limits physicians from being open to alternative approaches to healing mental illness. With pharmaceutical companies paying doctors to laud their products, and doctors being seduced to believe that they are “experts” rather than “customers,” it is difficult for […]
“The Doctor Who Lived”: Holistic Psychiatrist Defeats the Maryland Board (July 16, 2009)
Alice W. Lee, M.D., a holistic psychiatrist practicing in Olney, Maryland, has successfully defeated the Maryland Board of Physicians and protected her legal right to continue practicing orthomolecular psychiatry and energy medicine. After a raging, two-year battle in the Maryland courts and at the administrative level, Dr. Lee delivered a crushing legal defeat to the […]