About

Michel Accad, MD, practices internal medicine and cardiology in San Francisco.

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Journal articles:

Selected publications in the lay press:

  • Healthcare in the Crosshairs. The Austrian. 2017 3(5) 15-16.
  • La Santé aux Etats-Unis: Les Nouvelles Sont Bonnes Contre Toute Attente. Courier du Médecin Vaudois 2017 3:8-9
  • Healthcare Quality Measures: A Contradiction in Terms? San Francisco Medicine. September 2016.
  • The Widomaker: A Movie Review.  San Francisco Medicine.  February/March 2016
  • The War on Obesity: Conscientious Objections.  San Francisco Medicine. May 2015
  • ‘Physician-Assisted Dying:’ A Deadly Choice for the Medical Profession. San Francisco Medicine. April 2015
  • Medical Experts and the Stewardship of the Body. CANFP News. Winter 2015
  • Prohibition, Then and Now. San Francisco Medical Society Blog.  September 29, 2014.
  • Dr. Feelgood: Yesterday and Today Healthy Living.  Nob Hill Gazette. August 2014
  • Is the ‘Executive Physical’ Bad for You?  Healthy Living. Nob Hill Gazette. January 2014
  • The Cardiovascular Costs of Contraceptive ‘Freedom’. CANFP News. Summer 2013
  • Herb Fred’s 4 C’s. foreword to The Best of Herb Fred, MD.  Kingsley Literary Services, Houston, 2010.

18 Comments

  1. I’m thrilled!!!

    I got across your blog after reading your article on Mises.org.
    Your concepts and medical and liberal perspectives are enlightening!
    I’m an MD in internal and psychosomatic medicine and I study health economics. But so far I missed perspectives like yours.
    keep up the good Work!!!

    Marc, Switzerland

  2. I can’t quite tell if you are being serious about your novel… but it you are, you need to look into the Scrivener writing program/app; then, publish on kindle and amazon’s coordinated print-on-demand service, CreateSpace. I have used both.

    1. Thank you, Laura. That particular book project is kind of tongue-in-cheek, but I do have the Scrivener program…Best, Michel

  3. Dr. Accad,

    In your experience do you find that few of your colleagues believe in the corruption that has lead medicine to evolve into what it is today?

      1. Dr. Accad,

        Do you think physicians will still be taking histories in the future or will this process become automated? I’m in medical school currently and almost done with my second year. The whole process has left me skeptical of how we do medicine. I don’t think it is possible for any MD to remember all the pertinent questions to ask his or her patients. Furthermore, the little time MDs have with their patients exacerbates this issue. I’ve heard the saying “common things happen commonly,” and I imagine that those diseases are easier to pick up via the traditional history taking. But, what about those rare cases? How can one remember all those obscure diseases? I’m of the opinion our medical system fails these patients the most. What are your thoughts?

      2. Hi Joel,

        It’s natural to feel a little discourage and overwhelmed at the end of the second year, but you’re on the steep part of the learning curve, and you persevere, history-taking will become second nature. Also, in real life, you don’t need to come up with the correct diagnosis at the first visit within 45 minutes.

        Best wishes,

        Dr. Accad

  4. Since vaccines do not create true immunity, i.e. lasting and the genetic treatments called vaccines for Covid are not vaccines, the entire basis for the attack on those refusing to be genetically treated for Covid is missing.

  5. Is not the core problem with conventional (allopathic) medicine the fact that it is a creation, in essence of modern science, which stands cemented to the delusional belief that all can be reduced to the material and mechanical?

    If the scientific system of enquiry is the new Religion then surely modern medicine is its cult. These concepts have been well explored in this book, one of many questioning the soulless nature of modern medicine.

    Modern Medicine: The New World Religion: How Beliefs Secretly Influence Medical Dogmas and Practices Paperback – April 1, 2004
    by Olivier Clerc

  6. Dear Dr Accad, I am a follower of your blog posts and very impressed with your articles, posts, and your ‘realism” as this is an unusual approach in medicine nowadays!. I am a Family doctor working in Oxford, UK and I am still trying to figure our how to make sense of medicine!. Years ago I came across this paper https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(15)51733-9/fulltext

    His author is Martin Tobin, an Intensive Care Pulmonologist who debated dr Guayat on EBM. The paper is not recent but he is very much on the realism side!. I think he would be somebody worth inviting to your show!
    Regards,

    Basilio

    1. Thank you, Basilio. I enjoyed that article very much. As Dr. Tobin notes, the anti-realists frequently move the goal posts of their arguments!

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