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From: rjb@akgua.UUCP (R.J. Brown [Bob])
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Subject: Re: Vitamin B dosage question
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Date: Fri, 18-May-84 07:47:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 18 07:47:46 1984
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The HMS people ought to realize that life is not quite
like they would choose it.  Every decision a person
makes about his/her life cannot be based on a double-
blind statistically valid study of the effects of X.
We make choices based on anecdotal evidence lots of
times.  They trot out "blood letting" and blame it
on the Non-scientific community when in fact the
Medical people were te big proponents of blood letting
not the regular folks.  Accumulated along with some
ineffective and sometimes harmful treatments folk
medicine has generally passed along to us useful
treatments that are not harmful or fatal.  It has been
the Medical Community that has frequently repeated horror
stories about folk medicine and tried to manipulate the
public mind into thinking that these 3 sigma conditions
were the norm.  Simply stated, most real bad folk medicine
practices did not survive because the patients/doctors
learned the "hard way".


"Boy that makes me feel better"
"Just think, Now I won't have to punch out a doctor!"



Bob Brown {...clyde!akgua!rjb}
AT&T Technologies, Inc.............. Norcross, Ga
(404) 447-3784 ...  Cornet 583-3784