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Summary: A Remarkable Medicine
Review: As a pharmacist, I found the book to be very inaccurate. Dilantin has proven nothing short of miraculous for millions of epileptics for the past 65 years, and has proven useful for peripheral neuropathy and (to a very minor extent) bipolar disorder, but it has side effects that are often very unpleasant and is notorious for producing drug interactions.I believe that many alternative and off-label therapies have legitimate use, but this is a vanity publication that has about as much merit as supermarket tabloid advertising. I am grateful that people have not bombarded their doctors with requests for this "miracle" drug.
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Summary: Miracle drug or snake oil?
Review: As a pharmacist, I found the book to be very inaccurate. Dilantin has proven nothing short of miraculous for millions of epileptics for the past 65 years, and has proven useful for peripheral neuropathy and (to a very minor extent) bipolar disorder, but it has side effects that are often very unpleasant and is notorious for producing drug interactions. I believe that many alternative and off-label therapies have legitimate use, but this is a vanity publication that has about as much merit as supermarket tabloid advertising. I am grateful that people have not bombarded their doctors with requests for this "miracle" drug.
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Summary: fabulous and fascinating
Review: I came across this book by chance,and it is the most amazing medical book I have read in a very long time. Jack Dreyfus met with two presidents, a vice president, the heads of the FDA and others to try and be a help to humanity. This man started a foundation which has spent over 80 million dollars trying to get the benefits of this drug out to the public. At the age of 45 he became severely depressed and was seeing a psychoneurologist 6 time a week, and eventually had himself voluntarily commited. He asked his doctor to use this drug and was litirally helped within the hour. The book reads like a novel after that as he struggles to let the world know about the other uses of this drug.This man is a humanitarian of the highest order, and this book will definitly change the lives of many people who have a wide variety of illnesses.
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Summary: A Remarkable Medicine
Review: This is a remarkable story, a remarkable man, and a remarkable medicine. A Dr. first gave this book to me 14 years ago - it changed my life. Like Jack Dreyfus I lost interest in things I once enjoyed and like Jack Dreyfus I lost perspective and couldn't watch the news which is full of so much horror and sadness. People would tell me I needed to keep well informed, but it created panic attacks and I couldn't get it out of my mind. Drs. experimented with all kinds of medications that made me very ill and some that are habit forming nightmares. ONE INFORMED Dr. gave me this book and with Dilantin helped me get off all the "expensive, helpful medicines" that were making me worse. This book is written from the heart - just as the research was conducted. Thanks Dr. Roberts - Thanks Jack!!!
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Summary: fabulous and fascinating
Review: this is one of the most informative and well written books - I found it after seeing the remarkablemedicine website - it tells of Dreyfus' realization of the amazing versatile uses of dilantin - a medicine that is effective for a whole host of conditions and not just epilepsy. The book is must reading for all doctors and everyone interested in biography - Jack Dreyfus - he has unbelievable talents - and his discovery of the uses of dilantin is so important the whole world should know it. Read the book and check out the website - this story is important for everyone to know.
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