Musings: Latisse, Multivitamins, Nurse Doctors, Free Botox
Latisse is the one of the few of a line of cosmetic products that actually works. Bimatoprost ophthalmic solution does grow eyelashes, makes them thicker, and sometimes makes them darker in the vast majority of users. The drops are placed on the eyelashes of the upper eyelid nightly for 4 months. Thereafter it will be placed on the eyelash up to several times per week. If patients decide to discontinue its usage they will only lose eyelashes they have newly grown according to the manufacturer, Allergan. As this is a prescription drug it will be dispensed by physicians. Patients will need to visit the physician and have a simple history filled out to avoid complications due to pre-existing illness. Cost to the patient is $120.00 every 2 months for a total of 4 months and much less thereafter.
Multivitamins were slammed this week in medical journals as more evidence emerges that they do not cleanse the body, do not energize the body, do not prevent cancer. Use in nutritionally deficient patients is still recommended. The toxins that some physicians and manufacturers describe are located between their ears and can be eradicated by shutting their mouths!
When I feel a cold coming on and I want a placebo I take 2000mg of Vitamin C. It usually works in 12-24 hours.
Does anyone care that antioxidants function by neutralizing superoxides and then convert to oxidants themselves. While antioxidants can improve DNA self healing repair, as from sun damage, mostly they function in the test tubes of cosmetic companies where their addition to cosmeceuticals provides great grist for marketing departments.
Nurses in several states will soon be able to get a certificate that allows them to place Dr. in front of their names. Put a stethoscope around their necks and they meet all the criteria for impersonating an MD. How will patients know the difference? Several months ago Dr. Rachel solved the problems of a patient diagnosed with a tumor invading her brain. The “tumor” turned out to be ear wax. If you did not guess the 2 “doctors” who both diagnosed and evaluated the problem were a Nurse Practitioner and a Physician’s Assistant. The patient’s portion of the bill for her initial evaluation before the ear wax removal was 5000.00. Is this part of the new administration’s plan for reducing the cost of health care?
We have the lowest aptitude and achievement tests for students below the age of 18 of the 7 most successful industrialized nations in the world. Our health care statistics are abominable compared to our European counterparts. China is the most successful capitalist economy at this time. Yet we are still consumed with fear of educational standards and universal health care masquerading as socialism.
On a lighter note the airports are empty and I have not experienced a long line at security in many months. This was the best movie season in perhaps the past decade. We are extending our offer for free botox for one cosmetic area with the purchase of one syringe of filler to an additional 25 patients.
Happy Post Valentine’s Day.
Edward Lack MD www.metropolitanmds.com
Multivitamins were slammed this week in medical journals as more evidence emerges that they do not cleanse the body, do not energize the body, do not prevent cancer. Use in nutritionally deficient patients is still recommended. The toxins that some physicians and manufacturers describe are located between their ears and can be eradicated by shutting their mouths!
When I feel a cold coming on and I want a placebo I take 2000mg of Vitamin C. It usually works in 12-24 hours.
Does anyone care that antioxidants function by neutralizing superoxides and then convert to oxidants themselves. While antioxidants can improve DNA self healing repair, as from sun damage, mostly they function in the test tubes of cosmetic companies where their addition to cosmeceuticals provides great grist for marketing departments.
Nurses in several states will soon be able to get a certificate that allows them to place Dr. in front of their names. Put a stethoscope around their necks and they meet all the criteria for impersonating an MD. How will patients know the difference? Several months ago Dr. Rachel solved the problems of a patient diagnosed with a tumor invading her brain. The “tumor” turned out to be ear wax. If you did not guess the 2 “doctors” who both diagnosed and evaluated the problem were a Nurse Practitioner and a Physician’s Assistant. The patient’s portion of the bill for her initial evaluation before the ear wax removal was 5000.00. Is this part of the new administration’s plan for reducing the cost of health care?
We have the lowest aptitude and achievement tests for students below the age of 18 of the 7 most successful industrialized nations in the world. Our health care statistics are abominable compared to our European counterparts. China is the most successful capitalist economy at this time. Yet we are still consumed with fear of educational standards and universal health care masquerading as socialism.
On a lighter note the airports are empty and I have not experienced a long line at security in many months. This was the best movie season in perhaps the past decade. We are extending our offer for free botox for one cosmetic area with the purchase of one syringe of filler to an additional 25 patients.
Happy Post Valentine’s Day.
Edward Lack MD www.metropolitanmds.com
posted by Edward Lack MD at 8:20 AM
2 Comments:
Would love to be a guinea pig for Latisse but I read it can turn green eyes brown. Is this fact or fiction?
What movies did you love this year? I have mostly been disappointed. I thought "Milk" was the best movie that was nominated but not up to the caliber of previous winners. To me, the foreign movie nominations of 2007, "Pan's Labyrinth," "Water," "The Lives of Others," "After the Wedding" and "Army of Shadows" were about the best movies in decades. The only exception to this would be "Nowhere in Africa" which won in 2002, a truly wonderful movie.
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