Mountain blueberries: Placebo or miracle?
Paul Buehrens One of my elderly ladies in the nursing home started having rectal bleeding in her early 80s. The workup revealed surgically curable sigmoid colorectal cancer. That is, she had colon…
Clinical Stories
Alex and the inhaler
Alex Alex was then the infant child of my friend Ann, who lived about an hour away. One day I was talking with her. She was very worried about Alex.…
The Medicinal Properties of Pepper
When I was still in Medical School, I visited my brother. His daughter found me in the backyard, and announced she was sent to me because she had a rock…