Over the years I have become more disillusioned about accepting science as the primary reason to adopt a solution to a problem. Instead of a discipline of discovery and method to identify best practices, products or solutions it has become a tool of marketing to push one product over another or to discredit historical practices.

In November of 2011 I traveled to China, with other pharmacists on a cultural exchange of medical practices. In Xian (location of the terracota warriors) we explored some of the work being done to compare Western treatment methods with TCM (traditional chinese medicine). One of the obstacles to direct comparisons was how medical conditions were defined differently. For example diabetes was not considered a singular condition and monitoring blood sugars was not part of any treatment protocol or diagnostic process.

Interesting new overview of diabetics in Sweden and Finland will be changing the way diabetes is managed in the future.

Victory!

Something/Someone Old

My Someone Old today is the poet James Wright.

The times as they change are here to remind
That nothing has changed -not even time;

I've loved you forever, it hasn't been long - just enough now
To keep me in song

Today's number is 5