We, and that is not only us medics, generally identify a disease before we look around for its treatment. Observers argue that, these days, the sequence sometimes is reversed: the marketing of a pharmaceutical agent gives birth to a disease, often by “medicalizing” what actually is a natural part of human existence. This has created an epidemic of insomnia, particularly in the US.
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Medical Musings
by Wolfgang K Piller MD •
Axel and I have frequently written about the sense and nonsense of treatments, but hardly about tests. Tests are neither a magic wand to keep you healthy, nor to detect illness. For example everybody agrees on fasting blood sugar testing, but what does a normal result say? Everything and nothing. As a single test it may be useful to screen for diabetes, but a normal test does still not exclude it entirely.
Medical Centre Understaffed
by Editor •
The Almuñécar medical centre is having problems – who isn’t?
20th Anniversary Medical Centre
by Martin Myall •
The Town celebrated the 20th anniversary of the inauguration of the municipal medical centre.
Clinica del Mar
by David Darby •
Sergio at Clinica del Mar in La Herradura tells me that after a great summer, there are now a few changes occurring, the first of which is the departure of Sue Burnett, their resident Acupuncturist, who has returned to the UK along with her family. The whole team at Clinica del Mar wish her a…
Medical Centre Woes
by David Darby •
The First Councillor for La Herradura , Juan José Ruiz Joya, has denounced the ‘deficiencies’ experienced in the medical centre in La Herradura.