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Blind Spots, Havana Syndrome: Part 2

Blind Spots, a recent book by Marty Makary, is an in-depth analysis of how medicine gets it so wrong in some significant public health cases, frequently due to groupthink. Specifically, in the chapter “A Comedy of Errors,” Makary relates how his team “noted the same patterns of medical elites ruling by edict and kneecapping the brave souls who challenged their dogma.” All this misguided “science” that leads to misdirection in medical practice is a good segue to the current medical and policy debate in a running gun battle with reports of “Havana Syndrome”, aka Anomalous Health Incidents (AHI).

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Havana Syndrome: Part 1

Mysteries, coverups, not-to-be-believed but proven-true injuries, and careers destroyed. Children too. This is the stuff of Tom Clancy. And Netflix. And ongoing pain and suffering and Agencies walking away from the victims. This is another example of medicine and politics failing patriotic victims wounded in the line of duty and left to their own devices for coping with an uncertain and degraded future. That is, until some of them starting finding out about Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and other alternative therapies that are giving them their lives back. Read More
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Suicide Prevention by Committee: The VA/DOD Avoid Proper Diagnoses of both the Suicide Epidemic and Brain Wounds

Rather than a truly revolutionary, root cause analysis of what combat and BLAST and repetitive head hits can lead to, and what Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is doing to eliminate suicidal ideation and heal brain wounds, the strategy glances off “treatment” to focus on intercepting and dealing with the suicidal. Read More