Natural drugs aren’t necessary safe. Don’t make that mistake.

Meds
November 17, 2015

According to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the use of dietary supplements sends an estimated 23,000 Americans to the emergency department each year. Approximately 25 percent of the ER visits that were supplement related were by adults who were using herbal weight loss products. Another 10 percent were caused by adults consuming “energy products” (although people using energy drinks were excluded from the …

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Natural drugs aren’t necessary safe. Don’t make that mistake.

Physician assisted suicide is our moral indicator

Physician
October 31, 2015

On September 12, 2015, the California Legislature passed a controversial bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide. California would become the fifth state to allow doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients who request it, after Oregon, Washington, Vermont and Montana. During the debate over the passage of the bill, everybody weighed in: patient’s rights advocates, dying patients and their advocates, religious groups. The one group that I didn’t hear about …

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Physician assisted suicide is our moral indicator