Your Medical Mind_ How to Decide What Is Right for You - Jerome Groopman [100]
CHAPTER 2: BELIEVERS AND DOUBTERS
[Jerry’s Narrative]
32 Cholesterol as a risk factor in developing atherosclerosis was a prominent and controversial topic in the media: Leonard Engel, “Cholesterol: Guilty or innocent?” New York Times, May 12, 1963.
32 The history of elevated cholesterol as well as smoking predisposing to heart disease: Daniel Levy, Susan Brink, A Change of Heart: How the People of Framingham, Massachusetts, Helped Unravel the Mysteries of Cardiovascular Disease (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005); Daniel Levy, 50 years of discovery: Medical milestones from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Framingham Heart Study (Hackensack, NJ: Center for Bio-Medical Communication, January 1999).
32 The report of the surgeon general: “The 1964 Report on Smoking and Health,” http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/Narrative/NN/p-nid/60.
36 The difficult road to developing bone marrow transplantation is beautifully articulated in the Nobel address of Dr. E. Donnall Thomas: E. Donnall Thomas, Autobiography, Nobelprize.org, http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1990/thomas-autobio.html. The considerable advances that had been made in sustaining patients through this intensive treatment can be found in Ted A. Gooley et al., “Reduced mortality after allogeneic hematopoietic-cell transplantation,” NEJM 363 (2010), pp. 2091–2101; John H. Kersey, “The role of allogeneic-cell transplantation in leukemia,” NEJM 363 (2010), pp. 2158–2159.
37 Stephen Gould’s essay can be accessed: Stephen Jay Gould, “The Median Isn’t the Message,” CancerGuide, http://cancerguide.org/median_not_msg.html.
37 Dr. Lawrence Einhorn pioneered the use of cisplatinum in the treatment of testicular cancer. His work is included in the story of Lance Armstrong’s treatment in his book It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life, Rei Rep, ed. (New York: Berkley Trade, 2001).
39 The story of my back surgery and rehabilitation is told in The Anatomy of Hope (New York: Random House, 2005). An overview of conservative and aggressive measures for chronic back pain is found in Jerome Groopman, “A knife in the back: Is surgery the best approach to chronic back pain?” New Yorker, April 8, 2002.
[Pam’s Narrative]
41 Dr. F. Truby King wrote influential books, now out of print: Feeding and Care of Baby, 1913; The Expectant Mother and Baby’s First Month: For Parents and Nurses, 1923.
44 The findings of the Framingham study on estrogen: Peter W. F. Wilson, Robert J. Garrison, William P. Castelli, “Postmenopausal estrogen use, cigarette smoking, and cardiovascular morbidity in women over 50,” NEJM 313 (1985), pp. 1038–1043. Also see: Stephen Hulley et al., “Randomized trial of estrogen plus progestin for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in postmenopausal women,” JAMA 280 (1998), pp. 605–613; Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study Follow-up (HERS II), “Cardiovascular disease outcomes during 6.8 years of hormone therapy,” JAMA 288 (2002), pp. 49–57.
44 The controversy about hormone replacement therapy for women at the time of menopause and after menopause continues: Andrea Z. LaCroix et al., “Health outcomes after stopping conjugated equine estrogens among postmenopausal women with prior hysterectomy: A randomized controlled trial,” JAMA 305 (2011), pp. 1305–1314; Emily S. Jungheim, Graham A. Colditz, “Short-term use of unopposed estrogen: A balance of inferred risks and benefits,” JAMA 305 (2011), pp. 1354–1355. The media follows the debate closely. Two excellent articles that represent the range of expert views: Gail Collins, “Medicine on the move,” New York Times (op-ed), April 7, 2011; Tara Parker-Pope, “Estrogen lowers breast cancer and heart attack risk in some,” New York Times (Well), April 6, 2011.
45 The diagnosis and treatment of Graves’ disease is detailed in chapter 3. An excellent recent review