i’m back! (for a bit)
Dear All,
Sorry I’ve been missing for a while — third year medical school was a whirlwind, and then I took a research year off where I started working on starting a non-profit and other activities. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and to hope writing to you soon! I’ve been slow about getting back to your questions — I am very sorry about that. Please e-mail me at unitedstatesmedicalstudent@gmail.com for any pressing questions. Thank you! Jeff
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Dear All, I’m currently a fourth-year medical student with interests in everything related to medicine. In 2006, I studied acupuncture at the Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine for three months. For the past three and half years, I’ve been working with a pediatric surgeon at the Children’s Hospital of Boston on liver dysfunction, as well as on omega-3 fatty acids in children with short bowel syndrome.
I am fascinated by the potential of medicine, surgery, nutrition and complementary medicine. At the same time, I’m disturbed by the lack of evidence that surrounds some medical practices. I’m also deeply concerned about the conflicts of interest that are pervasive in the mainstream and complementary medical world. We often hear of how pharmaceutical companies have influence on doctors — this week’s New England Journal of Medicine paper written by Dr. Blumenthal’s team talks about these issues (April 26th, 2007). Less talked about, but equally important, is how herbal companies and natural medicine doctors are vulnerable to quality lapses, financial influence as well. For my posts, I will try to be aware about this and please let me know if you start to see me slipping in my awareness.
I’m going to try my best to talk about issues that are directly relevant to your health and my health — but avoid rehashing topics that you hear about all the time. Most likely, the posts will be on things that have frustrated my professors, or topics that really need to be told but for some reason haven’t gotten out to the public — such as preventable medical errors or important nutritional information that everyone should know about.
Lately, this past year, I’m in the hospital for most of my third-year, which makes it difficult to post new topics, but I’ve been trying to add some posts on my Youtube page. I apologize for taking a long time to get back to your comments, but I plan to answer all of your e-mails, it may take a while though and I am very sorry about that.
I hope you will stay with me throughout my four years in medical school and in residency. Please e-mail me at unitedstatesmedicalstudent@gmail.com.
(I also have Youtube videos if you find this is of help).
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=usmedstudent
Thank you for reading!
Jeff
P.S. I wanted to point out something important: I’m just a medical student, my posts are hopefully conversation starters, but only conversation starters — not medical advice. If my posts intrigue you, please read more about the topic and discuss about it with your doctor. I’d be happy to send you the information on the journal articles I talk about. Also, the opinions expressed in this blog are not necessarily those of Harvard Medical School, its affiliated institutions, or Harvard University. Best wishes!
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ha, I’ve been waiting so long to read your update =)
sorry for the delay — trying my best!
Jeff,
I love your videos! Thanks.
Quick question:
What supplement do you take, personally, to augment your intake of omega-3’s?
Another quick question:
I don’t like fish, and I don’t like taking fish oil (smelly belching, fear of mercury & PCBs, etc). I would like to take my omega-3’s from micro-algae. What is the best balanced ratio of DHA to EPA, and which vegetarian brand offers this? Thanks for your help!
Live long and prosper,
Eric P 🙂
Hi Eric, personally i’m taking nordic naturals. hmmm with regards to your question, good fish oil brands don’t have fishy burps. you can also try to minimize fishy burps by putting the capsules in the freezer. with regards to the best balanced ratio of DHA to EPA, i don’t think anyone knows the answer to that question. i don’t know how safe micro-algae is, so make sure to check out http://www.consumerlabs.com, which is an independent organization that tests the omega-3 fatty acid products. best wishes, jeff
Thanks Jeff, will do!
And so I’m reviewing this, and I thought about your video on stroke, I think you might be interested in checking out the grand charts made by one of my prof:
http://www.peterloewen.com/PeterLoewen.com/Wrote.html
Hope u find it useful =D
glad you’re back though hopefully u’ll respond to messages faster O.o
Thanks Wei. couldn’t open the link you sent me, can you send it again?
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