Dr Teddy Bader is a retired professor of medicine from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. He grew up in Boulder, Colorado. He graduated from Southern Nazarene University and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
He was part of the gastroenterology section in the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine. His interest is in viral hepatitis. He is the single author of a 15 chapter textbook titled- "Viral Hepatitis: Practical Evaluation and Treatment" that went into three editions. It was also reviewed by the New England Journal of Medicine where it was stated to contain “a wealth of clinically useful information in a concise and straightforward manner.” Dr Bader and his wife, Marilyn, enjoy traveling. He loves to swim, read, and collect humorous anecdotes.
The Kirkus review below is very good as far as it goes. But the reviewer does not mention the last six chapters where current understanding of the randomized controlled trial is reviewed in an easy to understand manner. This book would make an excellent basis for a documentary. I have hundreds of visual assets that are not copyrighted.
The second book, Desire and Duty, is a sequel to the perennial favorite, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. A vetted screenplay by the authors is available for review. Desire and Duty won the Small Press Book Awards for Fiction in 1997, and the Colorado Publishers Silver Award for fiction in 1997.
“Bader looks at many treatments for illness, including bloodletting, amulets, and “gold salts,” to name a few. This is a work of history, providing surveys of eras in medicine and giving satisfying sketches of the scientists and doctors who pioneered new practices and ways of thinking. While the author does point out where the physicians of bygone times got it wrong, he celebrates the ingenuity they relied on to break from existing and incorrect notions of illness and the human body. The Egyptians were misguided in placing faith in “talismans,” but Bader sees the root of that belief: “The anxiety of illness leads to a desire for a magical outcome.” Later, he applauds the work of Hippocrates for “stressing keen observation”—praise that, ironically, could also apply to another hero, the famed anatomist Vesalius, whose “appeal to visual proof” helped update outmoded models in Greco-Roman medicine. As the historical tour of medicine continues, the author repeatedly extols scientists and doctors who possessed a clear eyed sense of and paid levelheaded attention to the observable. William Harvey, Louis Pasteur, Antony van Leeuwenhoek—the names of famous physicians pile up. At one point, Bader swerves into a chapter on John R. Brinkley, the “Goat Gland Doctor,” for a funny and shocking detour into the dangerous world of pseudo-medicine. “We have discontinued the terms quack and charlatan in a fit of postmodern political correctness,” Bader delicately writes, but by this point his judgment of Brinkley’s harmful idiocy is complete. The book is well organized, broken into 20 chapters, each subdivided into titled sections. The prose is efficient and good-natured, with welcome beats of humor and cheek.”
– Kirkus Reviews
HEALTH & MEDICINE
WHICH TREATMENT IS BEST?
BY Teddy Bader • POSTED ON Oct. 29, 2019
A former gastroenterologist and retired professor of medicine assesses the efficacy of various treatments throughout history.
Bader looks at many treatments for illness, including bloodletting, amulets, and “gold salts,” to name a few. But his book’s title is a bit of a misnomer, as it puts an emphasis on the treatment rather than the physicians who devised it. Really, this is a work of history, providing surveys of eras in medicine and giving satisfying sketches of the scientists and doctors who pioneered new practices and ways of thinking. While the author does point out where the physicians of bygone times got it wrong, he celebrates the ingenuity they relied on to break from existing and incorrect notions of illness and the human body. The Egyptians were misguided in placing faith in “talismans,” but Bader sees the root of that belief: “The anxiety of illness leads to a desire for a magical outcome.” Later, he applauds the work of Hippocrates for “stressing keen observation”—praise that, ironically, could also apply to another hero, the famed anatomist Vesalius, whose “appeal to visual proof” helped update outmoded models in Greco-Roman medicine. As the historical tour of medicine continues, the author repeatedly extols scientists and doctors who possessed a cleareyed sense of and paid levelheaded attention to the observable. William Harvey, Louis Pasteur, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek—the names of famous physicians pile up. At one point, Bader swerves into a chapter on John R. Brinkley, the “Goat Gland Doctor,” for a funny and shocking detour into the dangerous world of pseudo-medicine. “We have discontinued the terms quack and charlatan in a fit of postmodern political correctness,” Bader delicately writes, but by this point his judgment of Brinkley’s harmful idiocy is complete. The book is well organized, broken into 20 chapters, each subdivided into titled sections. The prose is efficient and good-natured, with welcome beats of humor and cheek. None of the conclusions feel particularly earth-shattering, and some observations—“A thirst of knowledge and truth form the nucleus of any worthwhile scientist”—ring true but tired. But the author synthesizes an impressive historical range into a digestible and often entertaining work.
An engaging tour of medical history.
Publisher: Revive Publishing
Review Posted Online: July 15, 2020
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