Commentary On Kendrick's Doctor Data Chapter 1 Summary

Kendrick’s Doctoring Data, is an extremely engaging, and thought-provoking book in which he makes a lot of compelling arguments about medicine in general. It left me puzzled with just about any scientific claims that have been made so far. Most importantly, Kendrick looks into depth at both the medical and pharmaceutical research leaving me to question the motivations behind the manipulation, and the use of dirty tricks by pharmaceutical companies would practice to convince their audiences into thinking that their products are the best. In addition, I was confused with what the morality behind medical establishment in the United States are. Are they valuing money more than lives? How did money become so involved? What can we, as patients, do to solve this problem? What can doctors do to solve this problem? How do we advertise information to consumers of healthcare to be aware of the bias and gamesmanship of medical research? On the other hand, I dispute Kendrick’s explanations of medical research. Kendrick made an argument that one of the core reasons behind why researches conducted are

I love to spend my time sitting down reading about how researchers and doctors have been cooperating to find new possible treatments, and how drugs or certain food consumed daily would produce “positive” results. At the same time, I like to research on these studies to see the validity of their conclusions and statements. For example, I came across this research article that discussed about how regularly drinking beers could fight Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Knowing a relative who lost his life from Parkinson’s, I knew that this research was nowhere close to being correct. However, after reading through countless articles in regards to how beers could positively affect us, I concluded that this research was filled with flaws, and that it was better for us to just schedule appointments with doctors to treat