User:Pierre-Alain Gouanvic

From age 26 to 31, I ingested gigabytes of information in neurology, metabolism, endocrinology, clinical nutrition, physiotherapy and… metabolic diseases. A reputed medical doctor specialized in metabolic diseases, who had received the Albert Schweitzer prize, said about me that I had "plausible and testable hypotheses", that I was working on valid questions in the field of neurology, and that my tenacious work and my intuitions should be appreciated. I will not explain in details the reason of this interest in metabolism, etc., as it is personal, nor will I explain why I was told by another respected researcher that I had "an enormous intuition".

I am completing a degree in translation (Concordia University; English to French) and building a Web site designed to welcome and offer shelter to persons who want to become "expert patients". I am focussing on the right to health as a right to information regarding health, in accordance with the Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural rights of the United Nations. In doing so, I hope to promote the idea that citizens, when faced with the problem of their physical integrity, are able and willing to become responsible and knowledgeable citizens in matters related to their biology, taken in its widest sense.

I have worked as a terminologist (scientific and technical terminology) and received very favourable evaluations from experts in the field. However, even if I am not receiving a salary for it, I prefer giving time and passion to the Right to health Website and to Citizendium, and focus, for basic life-sustenance, on other activities such as freelance translation and community work in the field of Human rights. I am married and I am the father of two adorable children.

Tools

To create references in Wiki format using PMIDs

OAIster Open Access Index search

Contact

Email: pierre.alain.gouanvic@gmail.com

Website

Observatoire du droit à la santé

English version (Right to Health Watch) coming soon.

Questions on my mind

• In the evaluation of non-profitable medical interventions, are we talking of evidence-based medicine or absence-of-RCT-evidence-based medicine?
  • Evidence-Based Medicine - watching out for its friends Excellent overview of the real state of affairs with EBM
• IOW: Is there a lack of evidence-based medicine or an excess of lack-of-evidence-based medicine?
• Is objectivity a bias in a world where EBM creates clinical opinions?
• What will happen of the so-called anecdotal reports when everything will be assumed to be known from large-scale clinical trials?
  • Original research in pathology: judgment, or evidence-based medicine?
• Does the "invisible hand of market" take good care of science when deciding what trials will be funded?
  • Non-financial conflicts of interest are more serious than financial conflicts

• Why are stages of moral development not regularly assessed? (Kohlberg scale, others)
  • Generosity 'may be in the genes'
• Where's Superman?

TO DO LIST

Not an inclusive list!

Doctors

• Kousmine
• Klenner
• Cathcart
• ....

Conditions

• Stroke
  • Stroke rehab (huge topic)
• CHD vs n-3 FAs (indicate the errors in the Cochrane review)
• MCS (description); cf recent research by Rae

Molecules

• Vit C: see its talk page; transport; neurological role
• Mg
• Vit. D
• Carnitine
• ..

Topics

• EBM : recent special edition in the JECP