So, briefly, I am a neurologist who has been following Peat for many years, and the Forum for about a year. I actually came across RP in the 1980s as I was thinking about William Blake and his ideas about thermodynamics. (Blake says there is a limit to contraction but no limit to expansion; thermodynamics is deeply ingrained in his psychology and physics and ultimately, his endocrinlogy- a Blakean endocrinologist!)
We corresponded a bit and he led me to Russian literature (Vernadsky, Pavlov, many othersi in basic science) and I was fortunate enough to be close to Michael Polayni's circle and to have corresponded with and spoken once to Gilbert Ling.
Over these years physiological thinking has been steadily replaced with entities and products and processes Marx would love to explain to you.
A good thing about Covid-19 is that telemedicine has opened up. The reason, I think, that telemedicine has beep prevented is that the state medical societies are fearful that somebody from overseas will do what they do for a fraction of the cost and far better.. There was always the threat that it iwould be malpractice to prescribe without an "exam". I thank the virus for getting us past that.
So I am thinking of working with referrals from and to the RP community. Mostly what I might be able to add is some prescriptions and ordering bloodwork. Particularly, there is rapidly evolving brain imaging (volumetric MRI, spectroscopy) and I would dearly love to work with the community on cognition and Alzheiemer's as a metabolic problem. Also, I suspect that an interested patient would like to see what their thymus is doing. (again probably MRI). For these sorts of things, we would try to get covereage and if denied perhaps there would be enough volume to negotiate reduction in imaging cost as a group. There are many other things that come to mind.
Thoughts or advice?
We corresponded a bit and he led me to Russian literature (Vernadsky, Pavlov, many othersi in basic science) and I was fortunate enough to be close to Michael Polayni's circle and to have corresponded with and spoken once to Gilbert Ling.
Over these years physiological thinking has been steadily replaced with entities and products and processes Marx would love to explain to you.
A good thing about Covid-19 is that telemedicine has opened up. The reason, I think, that telemedicine has beep prevented is that the state medical societies are fearful that somebody from overseas will do what they do for a fraction of the cost and far better.. There was always the threat that it iwould be malpractice to prescribe without an "exam". I thank the virus for getting us past that.
So I am thinking of working with referrals from and to the RP community. Mostly what I might be able to add is some prescriptions and ordering bloodwork. Particularly, there is rapidly evolving brain imaging (volumetric MRI, spectroscopy) and I would dearly love to work with the community on cognition and Alzheiemer's as a metabolic problem. Also, I suspect that an interested patient would like to see what their thymus is doing. (again probably MRI). For these sorts of things, we would try to get covereage and if denied perhaps there would be enough volume to negotiate reduction in imaging cost as a group. There are many other things that come to mind.
Thoughts or advice?