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Concierge Medicine

Patient Education

It has been estimated that only twenty percent of a doctor's visit is spent on patient education. In my practice this is reversed. I try to spend the majority of our time together on education. My goal is to empower you to make good medical decisions by leveling the information playing field between you and your doctors. This is accomplished by: making complex medical concepts understandable, providing good information (clear, accurate, unbiased, and complete), and teaching you how to distinguish good evidence from bad evidence. See my lectures on YouTube here. Below find my regularly posted patient education emails.

Supplements vs drugs - the birth of a misleading dichotomy

Islon Woolf MD

Apr 22, 2018
6 min

Supplements vs drugs - the birth of a misleading dichotomy

In my last email, I illustrated the supplement double standard - a tendency to think that supplements are effective and have no side effects. In this email, I will explore how this perception came to be. Why we erroneously think of supplements as being different than drugs. Drugs and supplements defined Drugs are defined as compounds that are novel and synthetic. They are synthesized in a lab and not found in nature. Drugs include prescription medications and over-the-counter

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