How hard is it for reputable journals to rid themselves of their ties to big pharma and big medicine?
Dr. Faucis obsession with formalized clinical trials while essentially denying the real potential of this treatment demonstrates the intellectual limitations inflicted on doctors by a system designed to favor special interests over medical outcomes.
Im sorry to break your bubble. I really am. I have seen this sort of behavior before. When I was a Resident we even had a name for it. Brucelize. There was a practice that did all kinds of stuff. Send patients stuff like this email so they could tell each other this guy is the greatest doctor in the world. In reality all three of them were hacks none of us admired. We used to call them the Three Stooges. I know. This is inside baseball and I never mentioned it to any of my actual patients. They were great examples of What not to be.