Comments on: Brain surgery for schizophrenia http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/11/brain-surgery-for-schizophrenia.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:50:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: MedFriendly http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/11/brain-surgery-for-schizophrenia.html/comment-page-1#comment-81554 MedFriendly Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:59:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/11/brain-surgery-for-schizophrenia.html#comment-81554 What a nightmare! It's obvious that these patients and families are getting taken advantage of. If there is any legitimacy to this technique (which I doubt), the best way to establish it is by a randomized study with a control group, not by adminsitering questionnaires to the treatment group is some hospital that doesn't even have a name. Good grief.<br/><br/>Dominic A. Carone, Ph.D. <br/>Founder and Webmaster of <a HREF="http://www.medfriendly.com" REL="nofollow">MedFriendly.com</a> and <a HREF="http://www.medfriendly.com/blog.html" REL="nofollow">The MedFriendly blog</a>. What a nightmare! It’s obvious that these patients and families are getting taken advantage of. If there is any legitimacy to this technique (which I doubt), the best way to establish it is by a randomized study with a control group, not by adminsitering questionnaires to the treatment group is some hospital that doesn’t even have a name. Good grief.

Dominic A. Carone, Ph.D.
Founder and Webmaster of MedFriendly.com and The MedFriendly blog.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/11/brain-surgery-for-schizophrenia.html/comment-page-1#comment-81546 Anonymous Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:04:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/11/brain-surgery-for-schizophrenia.html#comment-81546 believe or not, contrary to this article, there are some of us doctors(MD's and DO's) who accept only cash for our services. we may take a bit of medicare and ins, but not much. thank you very much, but the chinese dont have a monopoly on getting paid with real dollar bills(U.S. dollar bills, at that).<br/>wish more doctors would brighten up and do the same believe or not, contrary to this article, there are some of us doctors(MD’s and DO’s) who accept only cash for our services. we may take a bit of medicare and ins, but not much. thank you very much, but the chinese dont have a monopoly on getting paid with real dollar bills(U.S. dollar bills, at that).
wish more doctors would brighten up and do the same

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