We have been taught to "just eat a balanced diet." We have been taught wrong. The truth is natural healing works.

he very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will not pass muster with me.

Medicine is aptly described as an art, not a science. To this end, four different doctors may have up to four different diagnoses or prescriptions.

I wish there were easy answers to people's health questions. There aren't. There are answers, all right, but they are not easy.

A hospital patient can expect one medical error every single day of any hospital stay. Malpractice suits are numerous enough that one may reasonably conclude that there is certainly no guarantee of proper health care by contracting it out.

If you want to be productive, follow leads and dig. Whether it is for oil, gold or information, it requires action - your action. Question authority. Do it yourself.

We need total health more than medically approved health. Our wellness should not be limited to our doctor's experience, but enhanced by our own experience.