"Supplementary, Complementary and Alternative Medicine Myths"

Salon for Sunday November 10, 2013, 4-6pm, at the Jefferson Center will be Mark Crislip, MD speaking on the harm of Supplementary, Complementary and Alternative Medicine. He will touch on placebos, the popularity of SCAM, the cognitive issues that allow someone to believe in unsubstantiated medical treatment, and the harm of SCAM. Dr Crislip joins us from Portland, OR where he is in private practice specializing in infectious disease. He was voted one of the top Physicians in the US by the US news and world Report, 2012, and is the editor of 'Science Based Medicine', a blog that explores issues related to SCAM and Science in Medicine.