I’ve often thought about the placebo effect – and why it isn’t thoroughly studied and understood? I realise that there are few commercial drivers for such investment but surely improved health outcomes must be worth something. No? I have noticed over the past 15 years or so, that the ‘Wellness’ types with their “Alternative Medicine” …
As someone approaching, or having arrived at, old age I am acutely aware of ‘shelf life’. I am now having a life on the shelf – where I have been since turning 60. In Australia our journalists and commentariat often talk of our Prime Ministers ‘having the shelf life of Yoghurt’. Rudd – Gillard – …
This may sound weird – and it has been said, on more than one occasion that I am weird, but I would strongly recommend that you read Wikipedia on the subject of CABG.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronary_artery_bypass_surgery And whilst you’re at it read around the subject by following the many links that explain some of the more technical terminology …