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Re: treatment or diagnosis: Both miss the point
CJM3:You want prevention? By all means, I agree that it would be a better thing than to treat catastrophic conditions. But don't tell physicians that they should be reimbursed based on their ability to prevent an outcome that is almost exclusively outside of their control. Instead, a far more powerful motivation will be to CHARGE PATIENTS who do ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by MedManagerWa on March 17, 2008
Why Study is Not Well-Designed
This study, like many others on inexpensive nutrients, seems designed to fail with it's extremely low dosage of 400IU. If you look into vitamin D, you'll find that the body requires something like 10s of thousands of IU per day. Vitamin D experts have long been saying that daily supplementation should be more like 4000 IU rather than 400. ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by chaves on February 6, 2008