[CarolynS]

Linda Herman posted this to a Pipeliners email this morning...thought this would be a worthy discussion topic for NT.

Why Almost Everything You Hear About Medicine Is Wrong

Newsweek, January 24, 2011

"More and more scholars who scrutinize health research are now making that claim. It isn’t just an individual study here and there that’s flawed, they charge. Instead, the very framework of medical investigation may be off-kilter, leading time and again to findings that are at best unproved and at worst dangerously wrong. The result is a system that leads patients and physicians astray—spurring often costly regimens that won’t help and may even harm you."