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Polybotanical Pharmacy

Posted by Samuel Benjamin on Friday, October 30, 2009, In : Medical Care

I am seeing more and more patients who have seen other "natural" providers who load the consumer up with LOTS of herbs and vitamins. One patient that I saw recently was taking 18 different products each with multiple herbs and vitamins inside. When I counted all that she was taking, she was consuming 138 different substances and was overdosing on Vitamin A!

First, if it is natural does NOT maen it is safe! Next, how can ANYONE possibly determine the intercations between so many substances. Thi...
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Regina Benjamin, MD An Example For The Rest of Us?

Posted by Samuel Benjamin on Friday, September 25, 2009, In : Medical Care

I want a REAL healthcare reform. Not one that is another
"do as I say- not as I do". Well before the elections I showed you in this blog Mr Obama- "Now you're smoking!" He still smokes but tells us about how WE should live our life. It is NOT a small thing that he can't stop smoking, but his healthcare reform would be biased against smokers. Now we have a surgeon general who is LARGE! I have no problem with this- except the US needs to wage a war on obesity which is the most costly disease we...
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YOU WERE NOT ALONE

Posted by Samuel Benjamin on Friday, June 26, 2009, In : Quality of Care

Michael you were not alone. Millions of Americans have paid billions to physicians who have been willing to prostitute themselves for plastic surgeries that no one needed (I understand that you had as many as fifty procedures), for pain medications that addict and psychoactive drugs that have questionable value. There were when you lived and there still are now physician hustlers who sold and sell any surgery or any medication for the right price- throwing away their ethics and moral responsi...