My novella, Susan's Search, is finally published on Kindle! Best of all, it's going to be available FREE several days during October as part of its kick-off promotion during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Mark your calendars (and tell all your friends) to download Susan's Search on October 2nd and 3rd, then again on October 14th and finally on October 25th and 26th. It's only 99 cents any other time but those five days it's FREE!
Susan's Search is the story of one woman's search for answers, not knowing that her family is searching for her. Diagnosed with breast cancer she listens to lots of mainstream doctors but then starts searching for treatments in the world of complementary and alternative medicine. Her life changes one night when she decides to drive to Arizona with a friend to visit a doctor. The note that she left her family is blown away so her husband hires a private investigator to find her. Everything works out in the end but there are lots of twists and turns along the way.
Enjoy!
Alan
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Monday, September 7, 2015
Susan's Search
My new novella, Susan's Search, will be coming out in October, just in time for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Friday, May 1, 2015
May 6th Radio Interview
On May 6th I'm going to be a guest with Miriam Knight at 11:45 PDT (2:45 EDT) talking about the world of complementary and alternative medicine! Please join us at:
http://omtimes.com/iom/2015/04/breast-cancer-victor-unbreak-your-health-love-or-limitation/
http://omtimes.com/iom/2015/04/breast-cancer-victor-unbreak-your-health-love-or-limitation/
Friday, April 17, 2015
Media Bias Against Dr. Oz
Why is it newsworthy that some doctors in this country are so controlled by Big Pharma that they're threatened by anything outside of their narrow field of vision? I'm talking about the doctors who submitted a letter to Columbia University asking that Dr. Oz, probably the best-known doctor in our country, be removed. I'm not surprised that they sent the letter. I'm pleased that Columbia basically ignored it.
What surprises me is the incredible amount of media coverage against a doctor trying to lead Americans to a healthier life. Apparently all of those drug commercials buy a little cooperation! It's sad to see but just part of life today, I suppose.
Hang in there, Dr. Oz. Lots of us enjoy your show and the wide variety of information you bring into our homes.
What surprises me is the incredible amount of media coverage against a doctor trying to lead Americans to a healthier life. Apparently all of those drug commercials buy a little cooperation! It's sad to see but just part of life today, I suppose.
Hang in there, Dr. Oz. Lots of us enjoy your show and the wide variety of information you bring into our homes.
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Strange New Idea in Medicine: Customer Service
It's sad when an old concept like "customer service" is considered a hot, new idea in medicine. There's a great article in the New York Times that illustrates that it does have advantages.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/upshot/small-company-has-plan-to-provide-primary-care-for-the-masses.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0&abt=0002&abg=1
This is one of the secrets of complementary and alternative medicine!
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/upshot/small-company-has-plan-to-provide-primary-care-for-the-masses.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0&abt=0002&abg=1
This is one of the secrets of complementary and alternative medicine!
Sunday, February 8, 2015
Living Well Talk Radio
On Monday, February 16th I'll be a guest on Living Well Talk Radio! If you'd like to tune in I'm scheduled to be on from 2:15 - 2:30 Central time. The entire show is about health so it should be fascinating, entertaining and educational.
Monday, October 6, 2014
Sunshine Act
Did you know that part of the Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare) is a provision called the Sunshine Act? This requires manufacturers of drugs and medical devices to disclose how much they're paying doctors and teaching hospitals every year.
During the last five months of 2013 payments to physicians and teaching hospitals was $3.5 Billion. Now how many people think those costs aren't being passed down to patients and raising the cost of health care?
Allan Coukell, director of the Pew Prescriptions Project, said recently that "The financial relationships between doctors and drug companies and medical-device companies are a source of conflicts of interest." Duh. What isn't surprising is how the lobbyists for those companies have managed to keep everything hidden from the public for so long thanks to their friends in government.
Finally we can look forward to exposing all of the games in medicine. And maybe even getting costs down to a reasonable level in the United States like the rest of the world.
During the last five months of 2013 payments to physicians and teaching hospitals was $3.5 Billion. Now how many people think those costs aren't being passed down to patients and raising the cost of health care?
Allan Coukell, director of the Pew Prescriptions Project, said recently that "The financial relationships between doctors and drug companies and medical-device companies are a source of conflicts of interest." Duh. What isn't surprising is how the lobbyists for those companies have managed to keep everything hidden from the public for so long thanks to their friends in government.
Finally we can look forward to exposing all of the games in medicine. And maybe even getting costs down to a reasonable level in the United States like the rest of the world.
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