Journal Entry 1 by hyphen8 from Honolulu, Hawaii USA on Wednesday, February 17, 2010

To be honest, I'm skipping most of the chatty interludes - I find them rather obnoxious. The questions & answers are quite interesting, though...and I'll probably save a copy of the bogus mucus recipes to go in my collection of weird recipes. Might work for a Halloween party some time. 

Journal Entry 2 by hyphen8 at Honolulu, Hawaii USA on Sunday, March 07, 2010

Released 2 yrs ago (3/8/2010 UTC) at Honolulu, Hawaii USA

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

This book is going in JudySlump612's Medicine Chest bookbox. Happy reading! 

Journal Entry 3 by Ri from Cincinnati, Ohio USA on Tuesday, April 06, 2010

I saw this in the Medicine Book Box and couldn't remember if I had read it or not. I read lots of books of this type whenever I come across them. As I started reading it though, I realized that I had read it several years ago when it came out when I was in naturopathic medical school. I did give it another read because it was quick and I find this type of info really interesting. Like Hyphen, I found the chatter mostly annoying and extraneous. Some of the questions and answers were quite informative, but others were quite misleading. Just because the FDA approves a substance, does not absolve it of all wrongdoing! Health problems triggered by artificial sweeteners, MSG, etc are totally dismissed in the book since they are "generally regarded as safe" by the FDA. I suppose this is the nature of a book like this, but the human body is treated as a single entity, not one full of individual variance from person to person. I'm not sure what the authors' experience with variance is, but in my cadaver lab, I saw tons of individuality and variation in the many bodies I studied. I also find that my patients all seem to respond differently to the same disease processes and treatments. *shrug*

There are some golden nuggets to be found in this book, but you have to sift through a lot of other junk to find it.

I'm placing it back into the Medicine Book Box. 

Journal Entry 4 by Ri at Medicine Chest Bookbox in Bookbox, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA on Friday, April 30, 2010

Released 2 yrs ago (4/30/2010 UTC) at Medicine Chest Bookbox in Bookbox, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

I took this out of the bookbox, read it and added it back to the box. 

Journal Entry 5 by JudySlump612 at Minneapolis, Minnesota USA on Monday, June 28, 2010

Returned to me in the Medicine Chest Book Box. 

Journal Entry 6 by JudySlump612 at Minneapolis, Minnesota USA on Sunday, November 21, 2010

I thoroughly concur with both hyphen8 and Ri about the annoying chitchat by the authors, and in fact I thought their rather smirky tone devalued the whole book. Still, it was part of the interesting variety of what came back in the Medicine Chest bookbox, and I'm glad to have it.

Ri, from your journal reference to "my cadaver lab" and "my patients," do I correctly assume that you're a practicing physician? Whether or not, I really appreciate your sharing your point of view, and also many interesting books, in the bookbox. I hope to meet you in person at some future BC Convention.

And a final picky note: the authors dismiss as trivial the juice served to blood donors after their donation. I've been a Red Cross Volunteer for many years, and we work hard to get donors to drink at least one cup of water, as well as a full-sized can of juice or pop, as well as eating a couple of servings of some type of snack. Yes it's true that the primary benefit is psychological, and it's also a graceful way to thank the donors and allow a little extra time to watch for reactions, but I dispute their comment. Of course by the time I reached that section, I was already reading with a jaundiced eye (metaphorical, not medical).  

Journal Entry 7 by JudySlump612 at 2nd Moon Coffee House (E. Franklin Ave & 23rd) in Minneapolis, Minnesota USA on Sunday, November 21, 2010

Released 1 yr ago (11/21/2010 UTC) at 2nd Moon Coffee House (E. Franklin Ave & 23rd) in Minneapolis, Minnesota USA

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

On OBCZ shelves next to entrance