by David Gumpert | Apr 18, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Last September, when I was reporting about the difficulties some physicians faced in obtaining flu vaccine, for a column in BusinessWeek.com, I focused on the fact that large retail chains like Walgreens and CVS seemed to be getting preference from manufacturers for...
by David Gumpert | Apr 17, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Sometimes I amaze myself with my naivete about the healthcare system. I used to think the primary care physician at the HMO I once belonged to was most concerned that I receive the best possible treatment…until I requested being allowed to go outside the system...
by David Gumpert | Apr 16, 2007 | Uncategorized |
It looks as if Mary McGonigle-Martin has done the first serious “review” of this blog (in her comment to my previous posting). She actually read through the months of postings and comments—something I haven’t had the stomach to undertake in...
by David Gumpert | Apr 15, 2007 | Uncategorized |
If you’re going to consult with a dietician or nutritionist, what kind of expertise do you expect? A reader sent along some of the questions from the study guide for the Registration Examination for Dietitians (put together by an affiliate of the American...
by David Gumpert | Apr 13, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Acne is a fairly common condition among teenagers, together with all the anxiety it implies. I recall about a dozen years ago, when my son was a teenager and was troubled by acne, his physician suggested he launch into a regimen of low-dose antibiotics to clear things...
by David Gumpert | Apr 12, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Why would the Michigan Dietetic Association (MDA) “get blessed under cover of law,” as Steve Bemis so elegantly puts it (in a comment to my previous post)?In flyers it passed out to legislators and others last year promoting the licensing of...
by David Gumpert | Apr 11, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Is it my imagination, or is Michigan at the center of all this country’s food-related controversies? First it was raw milk. Then it was the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). Now it’s the licensing of dieticians and nutritionists, and the...
by David Gumpert | Apr 10, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Lots of tricky raw milk info to make sense out of. First, I’ll start with the hot info, about settlement discussions in the case of Family Farms Cooperative and Richard Hebron, reported in today’s Ann Arbor News (and commented on by several readers...
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