Anne Kingston: As a journalist, the story of CCSVI extends far beyond the benefits it has offered so many people. It provides a portal to see just how power and money create and control disease narratives, how cultural and personal biases infiltrate medicine, how the pharmaceutical industry fuels medical response, and how medical silos have annexed the human body to deleterious effect. Watching the systematic shut-down of CCSVI offers a textbook study in how “evidence-based medicine” is created. It is a story filled with rampant human failure as well—from opportunists setting up CCSVI clinics and services to exploit a vulnerable population to doctors being willfully blind to patient improvements. More from Anne, and Canadian MPs Kirsty Duncan and Jane Cordy on 5 years since CCSVI was first in the media. Kerri
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 02:13:46 +0000
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