Reply #12: great attitude [View All]

[KT2000]

and more than a bit of arrogance on your part.
I will refer you away from your corporate sponsored medical journals for an education that would be a great benefit for you.
*A good place to start are the studies published in Environmental Health Perspectives - free searchable archive (publication of the National Inst. of Environmental Health Sciences - NIH)
*I will also refer you to the foreign environmental journals, such as the Scandinavian countries.
*You may wish to read the work of Philip Landrigan, MD - Mt Sinai
*This is a terrific resource: http://www.iceh.org/cgi-bin/searchresources.cgi
* The Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, U of MA, Lowell has a good publication: Presumption of Safety: Limits of Federal Policies on Toxic Substances in Consumer Products

I am sorry but your education, as all md's education, in the environmental influences on health is lacking. What I wrote is correct but I will leave it to you to educate yourself about chemicals, health and birth defects, regulation, influence of corporations, and the failure to protect health. What you currently believe about this is a fairy tale - sorry but that is the truth.

I hope you do dive into this and learn as much as you can. I promise you will be a much better physician for your patients.