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Julia S. Patient Expert

Oak Park, Illinois
My name is Julia Schopick, and I am a medical/health advocate, who is committed to helping people... Full Bio
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Free Ebook Now Available for International LDN Awareness Week: "The Faces of Low Dose Naltrexone" by Julia S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Patient Empowerment Honest Medicine is proud to announce that The Faces of Low Dose Naltrexone, a free 116-page EBOOK, is now available for download. The Faces of LDN is a special resource book, ... Read on »
International Low Dose Naltrexone Awareness Week: October 19-25th, 2009 by Julia S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Patient Empowerment an old drug a controversial treatment successful across a range of diseases linked by immune system dysfunction BUT YOU won't hear of it, and YOU won't be offered it On ... Read on »
Low Dose Naltrexone on Wellness Talk Radio & Blog Talk Radio by Julia S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Patient Empowerment Low dose naltrexone (LDN), one of the treatments I’ve showcased several times on HonestMedicine ( here, here, here and here ), has been in the online media quite a bit lately ... Read on »
Guest Columns by Daphne White About Comparative Effectiveness Research -- Reprinted from... by Julia S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Patient Empowerment When I first learned of the Obama Administration’s commitment to implementing Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) as a way of determining which treatments are effective a ... Read on »
The "Kabuki Play" of Monied Interests Around the $1.1-Billion Comparative Effectiveness Research... by Julia S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Patient Empowerment (This column was first published by John Weeks on TheIntegratorBlog.com.)John Weeks’ Introduction:In this section of a two-part series, Integrator contributor Daphne White, CH ... Read on »
CAM and Comparative Effectiveness Research: Are We Going to Play? (By Daphne White, CHTP) by Julia S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Patient Empowerment (This column was first published by John Weeks on TheIntegratorBlog.com.)John Weeks’ Introduction:The idea of "comparative effectiveness research" (CER), the new $1.1 billion ... Read on »
Getting the Word to Washington About What REAL Comparative Effectiveness Research Would Look Like by Julia S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Patient Empowerment As followers of Honest Medicine know, I have personally witnessed and reported on the outrageous amount of money that is being wasted by our healthcare system on expensive tre ... Read on »
Julia Schopick’s Comment on the Institute of Medicine’s Proposed Panel: Comparative Effectiveness... by Julia S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Patient Empowerment I just posted the comment below to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), recommending that they include people with knowledge of integrative medicine on their panel that will be co ... Read on »
Burt Berkson, MD, PhD, Talks With Honest Medicine About His Work and Our Medical System: The... by Julia S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Patient Empowerment I know that several people have already listened to my interview with Dr. Burt Berkson and have found him to be truly inspirational. My decision to transcribe the interview (a ... Read on »
Audio Interview: Burt Berkson, MD, PhD, Talks With Honest Medicine About His Work With Alpha... by Julia S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Patient Empowerment It is my honor to introduce you to Dr. Burt Berkson, one of the few physicians I believe to be a true visionary. In this interview, you will hear the true story of Dr. Berkson ... Read on »
Pharmaceutical News by Press Release? (OR: Low Dose Naltrexone Study Doesn't Make the News) by Julia S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Patient Empowerment In the article, “Statins (Crestor) for Everyone?”, I wrote about how the AstraZeneca-funded JUPITER study (JUPITER stands for “Justification for the Use of Statins in Primary ... Read on »
Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption -- by Marcia Angell, MD by Julia S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Patient Empowerment INTRODUCTION: When an email from Vera Sharav alerted me to the fact that Dr. Marcia Angell, a woman whose writings I have admired for a long time, had just written a book revi ... Read on »
The Integrative Health Care Solution -- A 2-Part Series by Julia S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Patient Empowerment ♣Part 1 -- For Tom Daschle and Barack Obama: Advocating the Integrative Healthcare Solution -- discusses WHY so many experts are now saying that best answer to our healthcare ... Read on »
Julia Schopick’s “Anecdotal” Series: Six Articles by Julia S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Patient Empowerment 1)♦Silverlon and Surgery: Our Search for Healing (Published in the National Brain Tumor Foundation’s Newsletter, SEARCH, Winter, 2003, Issue #54, as their cover article)I wro ... Read on »
For Tom Daschle and Barack Obama: Part 1: Advocating the Integrative Healthcare Solution by Julia S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Patient Empowerment Healthcare Reform is in the air. Tom Daschle’s “house parties” have met, and people are posting their ideas all over the Internet. There’s lots of discussion on websites such ... Read on »
For Tom Daschle and Barack Obama: Part 2: Seven of Honest Medicine's Articles / Audios Advocating... by Julia S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Patient Empowerment I have long advocated, through HonestMedicine.com, the careful combining of conventional and alternative modalities. My point has always been that a sensible medical system wo ... Read on »
More on Crestor and AstraZeneca – With Thanks to Dr. Jeffrey Dach by Julia S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Patient Empowerment I recently received a very thought-provoking comment from Jeffrey Dach, MD, an extremely conscientious and informative integrative physician and blogger, who works hard to get ... Read on »
Statins (Crestor) for Everyone? Or Could Diet and Nutritional Supplements Do the Job Better? by Julia S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Patient Empowerment The results of a recent study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, may well pave the way for almost all Americans to be taking pharmaceuticals.In the words of on ... Read on »
The Crestor Study: A Humorous Addendum by Julia S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Patient Empowerment While most of the news stories following the release of the JUPITER study were serious –- some for and others against –- a few people found considerable humor in the study’s c ... Read on »
David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD's Excellent New Book Panned By the New York Times for Citing... by Julia S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Patient Empowerment When I began reading Dr. Abigail Zuger’s New York Times review of Dr. David Servan-Schreiber’s latest book, Anti-Cancer: A New Way of Life, I was at first amused when she com ... Read on »