Michel Accad, MD, practices internal medicine and cardiology in San Francisco.
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Journal articles:
- Accad M. The Political Animal: Aristotelian Metaphysics for Austrian Schoolmen. Journal of Libertarian Studies 2020;24(2) 293-316
- Accad, M and Francis D. Does evidence based medicine adversely affect clinical judgment?
- Accad, M. The brain-dead body is alive, one, and human: A response to Maureen Condic and other proponents of brain death. Proceedings of the 27th University Faculty for Life Conference, Koterski, JW, ed. (2018) 233-39
- Accad, M. Population health: At odds with person-centered healthcare. Eur J Person-centered healthcare (2017) 5(2):167-9
- Accad, M. Hylomorphic elements and the cell theory: A basis for biological law? The Thomist (2016) 80(4):563-82
- Accad, M. How Western medicine lost its soul. Linacre Q (2016) 83:144-46
- Accad, M. A rejoinder to Jason Eberl on brain death. Linacre Q (2016) 83:1-2
- Accad, M. Of parts and wholes: A Thomistic refutation of “brain death.” Linacre Q. (2015) 82:217-34.
- Accad M. Heterologous embryo transfer: magisterial answers and metaphysical questions. Linacre Q. (2014) 81:38-46
- Accad M. On defining good health. Tex Heart Inst J (correspondence). (2013) 40(3):370
- Accad M. Skills, knowledge, and prediction. Am J Cardiol (2012) 110(1):161
- Accad M. More reasons statins are shunned. Am J Cardiol (2011) 107(6):957
- Accad M, Fred HL. Risk-factor medicine: an industry out of control? Cardiology (2010) 117:64-67
- Accad M, Fred HL. On redefining hypertension. Tex Heart Inst J (2010) 37(4):439-441
- Accad M, Fred HL. Is Jupiter also a god of primary prevention? Tex Heart Inst J (2010) 37(1):6-7
- Accad M. Statistics and the rise of medical fortunetellers. Tex Heart Inst J (2009) 36(6):508-509
- Michaels AD, Accad M, Ports TA, Grossman W. Left ventricular systolic unloading and augmentation of intracoronary pressure and Doppler flow during enhanced external counterpulsation. Circulation (2002) 106(10):1237-42
- Accad M, Michaels AD. Management after myocardial infarction. Curr Treat Options Cardiovasc Med (2002) 4(1):41-54
- Fazio S, Liu L, Gleaves LA, Major AS, Swift LL, Accad M, Linton MF, Fareses RV Jr. Increased atherosclerosis in LDL-receptor-deficient mice lacking ACAT1 in macrophages. J Clinic Invest (2001) 107(2):163-71
- Buhman KF, Accad M, Farese RV Jr. Mammalian acyl-CoA:cholesterol acyltransferases. Biochim Biophys Acta (2000) 1529(1-3):142-54
- Buhman KF, Accad M, Novak S, Choi RS, Wong JS, Hamilton RL, Turley S, Farese RV Jr. Resistance to diet-induced hypercholesterolemia and gallstone formation in ACAT2-deficient mice. Nature Med (2000) 6(12):1341-47
- Accad M, Smith SJ, Newland DL, Sana DA, King LE Jr., Linton MF, Fazio S, Farese RV Jr. Massive xathomatosis, and altered composition of atheroscleoric lesions in hyperlidemic mice lacking acyl CoA:acyltrasferase 1. J Clin Invest (2000) 105(6):711-9
- Fred HL, Accad M. Lipemia Retinalis. N Eng J Med (1999) 340(25)1969
- Accad M, Farese RV Jr. Cholesterol homeostasis: a role for oxysterols. Curr Biol (1998) 8(17):R601-4
- Accad MF, Fred HL. Dyspnea, cyanosis, and pulmonary infiltrates in a young skier. Hosp Pract (1997) 32(12):93-4
- Accad MF, Fred HL. Gross hematuria in a young woman with seizures and skin lesions. Hosp Pract (1997) 32(5):204-6
- Fred HL, Accad MF. Abdominal pain, leg weakness, and alopecia in a teenage boy. Hosp Pract (1997) 32(4):69-70
- Feld S, Li G, Amirian J, Felli P, Vaugh WK, Accad M, Tolleson TR, Swenson C, Ostro M, Smalling RW. Enhanced thrombolysis, reduced coronary re-occlusion and limitation of infarct size with liposomal prostaglandin E1 in a canine thombolysis model. J Am Coll Cardiol (1994) 24(5):1382-1390
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.
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
Thank you so much for your kind words and encouragement, Marc!
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.
Thank you, Laura. That particular book project is kind of tongue-in-cheek, but I do have the Scrivener program…Best, Michel
oh, too bad! It sounds like a good book, and now I want to read it.
I’ve copyrighted the title 😉
Michel ! tu as un blog de philo et tu m’a pas dit !
Je n’ai rien à t’apprendre, Letizia…
appreciated your Mises article July 2016
Laurence Brody, M. D.
Thank you!
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?
Perhaps the question answers itself 🙂
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?
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
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.
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
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
Thank you, Basilio. I enjoyed that article very much. As Dr. Tobin notes, the anti-realists frequently move the goal posts of their arguments!