Eric Nelson’s April 4th Community Digital News article, Evidence-based medicine should consider all the evidence, questions the wisdom of excluding evidence of healing labeled “anecdotal”. Considering only evidence based on conventional scientific methods can leave a large body of evidence unconsidered. If something works, perhaps it merits consideration rather than dismissal. You can begin reading Nelson article here then continue by following the link below to the full article.
While researching her New York Times bestselling book “The Gratitude Diaries,” author Janice Kaplan came up with what she described during a recent talk in San Francisco as her “big plan” for maintaining an attitude of gratitude as a way to get rid of her next migraine headache.
“Well, there was sort of a problem,” said the former Parade Editor-In-Chief, “which is that I never got another migraine headache while I was writing the book.”
Apparently gratitude works in both preventative and curative ways.
Kaplan was quick to downplay her story, however, saying she wouldn’t be writing it up for any medical journal because it was “a bit anecdotal.” That’s too bad. Not because Kaplan’s account, in and of itself, is worthy of the New England Journal of Medicine, but because despite the small sample size, it could very well point to a fundamentally different approach to health – that is, a drug-free, affordable, and universally available approach to health.
Given that Americans spend upward of $17 billion each year to treat migraines, this is a really big deal.
Sure, there are many who will say, “She was just lucky,” or, “That kind of thing would never work for me.” That fact is, though, it did and continues to work for Kaplan – and likely countless others – prompting her to suggest to her audience that regardless of the lack of medical proof, “it’s probably worth trying.”