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Richard Amerling, MDThe Medical Profession has gone off the rails. Science and ethics are gone. I am a classically trained clinician, board certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology. Follow this substack to learn about how we get back on track.
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Here’s a recent podcast about my old essay, “Zen and the Art of Health Maintenance.”
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The Destruction of American Medicine and Health: An Eyewitness Account
The Destruction of American Medicine and Health: An Eyewitness Account
Adapted from a presentation to Medical Doctors for Covid Ethics, January 20, 2026
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Guidelines Have Done More Harm Than Good
Introduction: These excerpts are from an article I wrote in 2008 in response to the proliferation of practice guidelines in nephrology. You can see that most of what I feared would happen has indeed happened.
Practice guidelines are a rec...
Dietary Disinformation
The government and major medical organization have become the principal purveyors of nutritional and medical misinformation. It has become so bad that my recommendation to patients, family and friends is to do the opposite of the “official”...
The Tyranny of Evidence-Based Medicine
https://jpands.org/vol26no4/amerling.pdf
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