DonaldMiller.com
Donald W. Miller, Jr.
I am a physician and teach cardiac surgery at the University of Washington School
of Medicine. I recognize and study the importance of natural medicine,
especially for maintaining optimum
health. I also study and write about history, philosophy, book
collecting, and various
orthodoxies in the climate and biomedical sciences.
This
site contains:
Articles I have written for
LewRockwell.com
and medical journals, available online, arranged by subject, along with books
(and a form of brown seaweed) I recommend related to these subjects.
The PowerPoint slides with audio narration for "Iodine in Health and Civil Defense,"
a talk that I gave at the 24th Annual Meeting of Doctors for Disaster
Preparedness (August 6, 2006); the slides and text for "Adaptive Innovations in
Medicine: Vitamin D,
Iodine, and Selenium," presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons in Phoenix, Arizona (September
12, 2008); and the slides and text for talks given on nuclear power
and evidence-based medicine.
The complete text of my book
Heart in
Hand
with
seven
illustrations
(not in the published book).
My
Curriculum
Vitae Email Address
A Brief
Biography -- And some Links
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I dedicate this website to
George Crosby.
This photograph was taken of
George Crosby working in his garden 6 months after
I performed open heart
surgery on him. He was 101 years old. (For more about this
remarkable man, and his effect
on me, see pages 7, 75-76, 98, 165, 177, and 180 in my book Heart
in Hand, which is accessible online here.)
George Crosby (1883-1984)
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My Most Recent Articles on
LewRockwell.com
Avoid
Flu Shots, Take Vitamin D Instead (October 3, 2008)
10 pages. Copyright
© 2008 by LewRockwell.com
Questioning
HIV/AIDS, Human-Caused Global Warming, and other Orthodoxies in the Biomedical
Sciences (March 4, 2008) 5 pages. Copyright
© 2007 by LewRockwell.com
Articles by subject:
Iodine
Extrathyroidal
Benefits of Iodine. Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
2006;11(4-Winter):106-110.
For a good-tasting source of brown seaweed in liquid
form (with added nutrients), click here
(www.limumiracles.com)
Iodine
for Health
(August 14, 2006) 9 pages. Copyright
© 2006 by LewRockwell.com.
For a good-tasting source of brown seaweed in liquid
form (with added nutrients), click here
(www.limumiracles.com)
Adaptive
Innovations in Medicine: Vitamin D, Iodine, and Selenium
Presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Physicians and Surgeons, Phoenix, Arizona, September 12, 2008. The PowerPoint slides I used for it are
here
and the text, here.
Iodine in Health and Civil
Defense. Presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of Doctors for
Disaster Preparedness, August 6, 2006 in Portland, Oregon.
The PowerPoint slides for this talk, with
an audio narration, are here
(these take awhile to load [66 MB]). The text I used for this
narration, with its 68 references are here
Selenium
The
Moon Goddess' Role in Human Health
(August 27, 2007) 5 pages. Copyright
© 2007 by LewRockwell.com
Adaptive
Innovations in Medicine: Vitamin D, Iodine, and Selenium
Presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Physicians and Surgeons, Phoenix, Arizona, September 12, 2008. The PowerPoint slides I used for it are
here
and the text, here.
Vitamin D
Avoid
Flu Shots, Take Vitamin D Instead (October 3, 2008)
10 pages. Copyright
© 2008 by LewRockwell.com
See the CDC;s "Seven
Step Recipe" for generating demand for flu shots.
Vitamin
D in a New Light
(September 10, 2007) 8 pages. Copyright
© 2007 by LewRockwell.com
Adaptive
Innovations in Medicine: Vitamin D, Iodine, and Selenium
Presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Physicians and Surgeons, Phoenix, Arizona, September 12, 2008. The PowerPoint slides I used for it are
here
and the text, here.
Vaccines, Mercury, and Autism
Avoid
Flu Shots, Take Vitamin D Instead (October 3, 2008)
10 pages. Copyright
© 2008 by LewRockwell.com
See the CDC;s "Seven
Step Recipe" for generating demand for flu shots.
A
User Friendly Vaccination Schedule (December 10, 2004)
9 pages. Copyright
© 2004 by LewRockwell.com.
An
Important Update to this Vaccination Schedule (November 17, 2005)
The two
best books on this subject::
Saying
No to Vaccines: A Resource Guide for All Ages by Dr.
Sherri Tenpenny (published June 16, 2008). This book refutes the
25 most common arguments supporting vaccination and provides detailed
information on vaccine exemptions for schools, healthcare, and the
military. It also has a 75-minute DVD that discusses, among other
things, the HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccine.
Vaccine
Safety Manual for Concerned Families and Health Practitioners: Guide to
Immunization Risks and Protection
by Neil
Miller (
published
April 10, 2008
).
It has more than 3,000 references, along with a foreword by Russell
Blaylock, M.D. This is the most
comprehensive work to date on the risks and benefits of vaccines.
See also Dr. Tenpenny's 3-hour DVD: Vaccines:
The Risks, The Benefits, The Choices
.
Mercury
on the Mind (September 29, 2004) 7 pages. Copyright
© 2004 by LewRockwell.com.
Recommended reading: Evidence
of Harm by David Kirby.
Arm-to-Arm Against
Bioterrorism (September 26, 2002) Copyright
© 2002 by LewRockwell.com. Reader
Comments
Recommended reading: Scourge:
The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox by Jonathan Tucker.
Global Warming
Questioning
HIV/AIDS, Human-Caused Global Warming, and other Orthodoxies in the Biomedical
Sciences
March 4, 2008) 5 pages. Copyright
© 2007 by LewRockwell.com
Solar
and Celestial Causes of Global Warming (March 16, 2007) Copyright
© 2007 by
LewRockwell.com.
Recommended reading: The
Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change by Henrik
Svensmark and Nigel Calder, Unstoppable
Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years
by Fred Singer and Dennis Avery, The
Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism
by Christopher Horner, and The
Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming
Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud**And those who are too fearful to
do so by Lawrence Solomon.
Toro!
Toro! Michael Crichton (March 16, 2005) 7 pages. Copyright
© 2005 by
LewRockwell.com.
Recommended reading: State
of Fear by Michael Crichton and Eco-Imperialism:
Green Power, Black Death by Paul Driessen.
Finding
Truth in Phoenix (July 21, 2003)
Copyright © 2003 by
LewRockwell.com.
More recommended reading: The
Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming, , by Patrick Michaels.
Water Fluoridation
Fluoride
Follies
(July 15, 2005) 7 pages. Copyright
© 2005 by LewRockwell.com.
Recommended reading: The
Fluoride Deception by Christopher Bryson and Health
and Nutrition Secrets that can Save Your Life by Russell
Blaylock.
Healthy
and Harmful Halogens: Iodine and Fluoride.
LewRockwell.com Conference, Be Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise. Center
for Libertarian Studies. Foster City, CA. December 2, 2006.
The PowerPoint slides used for this talk are here
and the text for it, here.
HIV-AIDS
Questioning
HIV/AIDS, Human-Caused Global Warming, and other Orthodoxies in the Biomedical
Sciences March 4, 2008) 5 pages. Copyright
© 2007 by LewRockwell.com
A
Modern-Day Copernicus: Peter H. Duesberg (February 23, 2006) 7 pages. Copyright
© 2006 by LewRockwell.com.
Recommended reading: Science
Sold Out: Does HIV Really Cause AIDS? by Rebecca Culshaw, Inventing
the AIDS Virus by Peter Duesberg, and Oncogenes,
Aneuploidy, and AIDS by Harvey Bialy.
Finding
Truth in Phoenix (July 21, 2003)
Copyright © 2003 by
LewRockwell.com.
Ionizing Radiation
and Nuclear Power
Afraid
of Radiation? Low Doses are Good for You
(April 2, 2004) 7 pages. Copyright
© 2004 by LewRockwell.com.
PDF
Version (6 pages) Reader
Comments
Recommended reading: Underexposed:
What If Radiation Is Actually Good for You? (published
in 2005) by Ed Hiserodt.
Advantages
of Nuclear Power (April 14, 2004) 11
pages. Copyright
© 2004 by LewRockwell.com.
PDF
Version (7 pages) Reader
Comments
I presented a
paper on this subject to The Diet in Seattle on April 13, 2004,
titled "Keeping the Lights On." The (pdf) text I used for
that talk can be accessed here,
and the PowerPoint slides for it, here
(these
take awhile to load).
Cancer
Questioning
HIV/AIDS, Human-Caused Global Warming, and other Orthodoxies in the Biomedical
Sciences March 4, 2008) 5 pages. Copyright
© 2007 by LewRockwell.com
A
Modern-Day Copernicus: Peter H. Duesberg
(February 23, 2006) 7 pages. Copyright
© 2006 by LewRockwell.com.
Recommended reading: Oncogenes,
Aneuploidy, and AIDS by Harvey Bialy.
The
Moon Goddess' Role in Human Health
(August 27, 2007) 5 pages. Copyright
© 2007 by LewRockwell.com
Evidence-Based
Medicine
The Government
Grant System: Inhibitor of Truth and Innovation?
(In PDF),
Journal of
Information Ethics 2007;16(1,
Spring 2007):59-69. The Spring 2007 issue of this journal has six papers
on
government grants, including this one.
(This article is now also available on
LewRockwell.com under the title "The Trouble with Government Grants,"
in this site's format with hyperlinks to online references and books cited.)
See Bruce Ramsey's "Government's
Funding Framework Breeds Scientific Conformity" published in the Seattle
Times March 17, 2008. He writes opinion pieces and editorials for
the Seattle Times and interviewed me about this article and the
"Questioning HIV/AIDS..." one. (I suggested he also talk
with Gerald Pollack, UW professor of bioengineering, which he did.)
See also his follow up article "A
Scientist Writes About Innovation and the Grant System" April 30,
2008.
On
Evidence, Medical and Legal.
Coauthored with Clifford Miller (no relation): Miller DW and Miller CG. Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
2005;10(3-Fall):70-73.
Its conclusion: "Medicine
needs to develop a better understanding of the nature of evidence and of
evidential proof, by emulating law’s approach to evidence.
Law in turn needs a better understanding of the shortcomings of
medicine’s approach to evidence."
Comments
by reviewers: "Frankly, I
consider this a landmark manuscript--it is absolutely wonderful and makes
researchers look at their profession in a new light--in terms of legal
implications as well as what is truly ‘scientific’…. It is absolutely
a classic."
And: "On Evidence, Medical and Legal" I think is terrific..... The
authors have done a remarkable job putting it all together...... We need
more sharp
thinkers to help ...
against HMOs and their
Madison Ave
rhetoric."
I
presented a talk with this title to the Seattle
Surgical Society on May 22, 2006. The (pdf) text I used for that talk can be
accessed here,
and the PowerPoint slides for it, here
(these take awhile to
load).
Book
Review: Malignant Medical Myths by Joel Kauffman. Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
2006;11(2-Summer):63-64.
I recommend that you read Kauffman's book Malignant
Medical Myths.
Other
(peer-reviewed) medical and surgical papers and (two) books on
heart surgery that I have written, not available online, are listed in
my Curriculum
Vitae.
On Life
The
Two Poles of Life's Magnet: Sex and Death
Presented to The Diet, in Seattle,
January 9, 2001
This article takes awhile to load (with its scanned photo of
George Crosby)--but I think you will find it well worth reading.
The Civil War
Gone
With the Wind: An American Epic
(April 17, 2007)
Copyright
© 2007 by LewRockwell.com.
Reader
Comments
A
Jeffersonian View of the Civil War (September 8, 2001)
Copyright © 2001 by
LewRockwell.com.
Read The
Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda and an Unnecessary War
(2002) by Thomas DiLorenzo, and his latest book Lincoln
Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe (2007).
A
Civil War Book Collection for 2002 (September
2, 2002)
Copyright © 2002 by LewRockwell.com.
These books are indispensable:
War
for What? by Francis Springer, When
in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession by
Charles Adams, and The
Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda and an Unnecessary
War by Thomas DiLorenzo.
Politics (and
Philosophy)
The Philosophical
Basis of the Conflict Between Liberty and Statism (May 5, 2003)
Copyright © 2003 by
LewRockwell.com.
I recommend these books by
Schopenhauer: The
Wisdom of Life, The
World as Will and Representation (Volume 2), and On
The Basis of Morality.
Patriotism,
Then and Now (October 30, 2001)
Copyright © 2001 by
LewRockwell.com.
Viewing
Twenty-First Century America from Ground Zero (July
31, 2002)
Copyright © 2002 by
LewRockwell.com.
(12 pages in the LewRockwell.com format.) PDF
Version (9 pages) Reader
Comments
A
Fourteen Point Plan for a Post-Wilsonian America
(September 28, 2001)
Copyright © 2001 by
LewRockwell.com.
Recommended reading: Outgrowing
Democracy: A History of the United States in the Twentieth Century by
John Lukas.
The Beat Generation
Books
by the Beat Generation (January 14, 2004) Copyright
© 2004 by LewRockwell.com.
This
is the The
Wilson 50: The
Fifty Most Important Books of American Literature Published After World
War II (1945-1980) referred to in the
article. Twelve of them are by Beat writers.
Read
Howl
by Allen Ginsberg, On
the Road by Jack Kerouac, and Naked
Lunch
by William Burroughs.
Celebrating
the Beats (May 17, 2006) 7 pages. PDF
Version Copyright
© 2006 by LewRockwell.com.
This article is
adapted from a talk I gave to the Fellowship
of American Bibliophilic Societies on May 13, 2006 titled "On the
Collecting Road with Writers of the Beat Generation." The
(pdf) text I used for that talk can be accessed here,
and the PowerPoint slides for it, here
(these take awhile to
load).
Books
Gone
With the Wind: An American Epic
(April 17, 2007)
Copyright
© 2007 by LewRockwell.com. Reader
Comments
Weighted Shoes
The
Physiologic Benefits of Weighted Shoes
(March 5,
2003) Copyright © 2003
by LewRockwell.com. (I am no longer
associated with the company mentioned in
this article.)
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My book
Heart
in
Hand Copyright © 1999 by Donald W. Miller, Jr.
Heart
in Hand
delves into a variety of subjects--music, philosophy, religion, science, and
my life as a
heart surgeon. I
address bacteriology, evolutionary biology, physics, the music of Richard Wagner,
and, in particular, the philosophy of Schopenhauer and Woody Allen's
films. The
book
focuses on sex, religion, compassion, and art--four
ways, as Schopenhauer shows us, humans can peek inside the castle of ultimate reality, where the secrets of the inner nature of the world and all things in
it reside. Theologians, people who study philosophy and love music,
and Woody Allen fans will enjoy reading this book. Perhaps even some
scientists as well.
You can order hardback or paperback copies from
www.amazon.com
or directly from the publisher, www.xlibris.com,
either online or by phone: 1-888-795-4274
For a
good review of this book
on Amazon.com click here
For
another one I like on Amazon.com click here
Melinda Bargreen's review in The
Seattle Times
Reader's
Comments
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illustrations for
the book
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