Oh yesss!

I'm sendin' out da Blood-Hounds to look for da G-meister !!!!!!!! :O)

DATS WHAT I WANNA KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :o)

Is it wrong to get teary eyed watching an internet wine program?????

No, he did the same thing to me as well!

Thnx, how are things in the land of sweden???

And clearly Gary's does, as the show is now posted. Well, ulitimately that's his call. I just hope viewers understand that while alternative treatments may have a place, they should not be used to the exclusion of proven treatment metholdologies.

i love winecrazy

Yap-yap, you know you talk too much?

People should decide for themselves, end of story!

Cold, rainy and just work, work. Always try to jam a WLTV before bedtime, but its hard sometimes. Will visit Denmark sometime in june to bring some wine home from Chateau Haux main storage in Herlev

i'm impressed my man. keep up the good work. i found out about your show through some peeps in chitown and i'm glad i did.

Excellent episode.
What we did after diagnosis, was to get a second opinion. We never discussed cost, only discussed comfort.
Almost 6 years cancer free.
I also agree with some of his statements against mammograms. 4 tumors overall and the mammograms didn't see any of them. Just saying what happened to us, not making a statement about others.

You are an inspiration Budge! If what you are doing saves only one woman's life it will have been worth it. You were so right when you said that you are in charge of your own health care, which is true no matter what the disease. It is critical to learn as much as possible about your illness and explore all different treatment options. And find a doctor you trust! Unfortunately there are bad ones out there. Keep up the fight Budge!

Terrific show. Very moving.

QOTD: Read and learn as much as possible.

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network is who you trust.

Illuminating comment as always, Just Jack!! However, I do have to disagree with your generous contention that his pompous use of “farmer” was beneath his profession… it is glenn himself who appears not to rise to the love and concern that SHOULD obviously be a major factor in the life of someone in his profession. I think I tend to agree with Dr. Walker on this one. (God-complex… arrogance…etc.) Forget accupuncture… how about good, old-fashioned prayer? (I’ll also thank the “good Lord” with Dr. Walker.) I’m not going to preach here, but I do want to say that I have seen with my own 2 eyes the answers to prayer in a seemingly “impossible” situation. One such example is a good friend of mine who was dying and about to be removed from his life support system at the hosp. here in Sacramento… a few short hours after prayer he was up and pulling tubes out of his body, demanding to be released immediately. Sometimes “modern science” does not have the answers to, or even begin to offer any explanation at all of the way we are, or are not, healed. I’m sorry to burst glenn’s omnipotent bubble, but literally millions of people (including doctors and other health care workers, like my mom, for example) have witnessed things that have to be acknowledged as “miracles”. Of course I agree with glenn that we should not turn our backs on the medicine that is proven to work, but I also think that he should climb down off Mt. Zion and humbly acknowledge that he is merely a contemporary health care worker and does NOT have all the answers, either!!
(Sorry, all, for the rant, but I’ve just known too many drs. like glenn., compared with a fewer number of awesomely caring, dedicated drs. who were born for this amazing profession!!)

Randall thanks for the reply. Believe me brother I hear you. I am giving Glenn the benefit of the doubt because sometimes people come across when they are writing completely different from their real personalities. Is some of his condescension inexcusable for an educated man? yes. However, he certainly is intelligent and I am trying to keep in mind that Drs have lives and stresses just like us, and that they have good days and bad. Let’s just pray that this was a bad day for Glenn and that he is much more gentle with his patients (I suspect he is). I mean, I know where Glenn’s passion is coming from. After a long enough time as a Dr he has probably seen as many folks damaged by bad advice and quackery as we have seen put through unbelievable pain and suffering by bad physicians. My biggest point is that the stakes are too high to give up the fight. And when anyone resorts to belittling the holder of a viewpoint they disagree with they have indeed conceded the field. They may feel better, but they have lost the argument.I think your point is a perfect example. Many people in the medical field would consider you naive and backwards for extolling the virtues of prayer. I myself do not have a strong enough faith to really truly share your hope in the divine as an instrument of my own healing. However, I don’t begrudge you your view To the contrary I admire it. Faith is an incredibly powerful force. Whether or not one believes that a deity is picking up the other end of the call (or if so, what his/her name is) really isn’t that important in the long run. The fact is that you are completely correct when you say that miracles happen. If you define miracles as an event which medical science is at a complete loss to explain they actually happen frequently.I saw an interview with Dr Andrew Weil once (For those of you not familiar he is half new age vitamin and diet guru, and half western physician). He talked about a stage three trial of some drug or another and the placebo effect was on the order of 15% or something. Well of course those running the study control that away. That is why these studies are mostly placebo controlled. His question was, if the placebo effect is so universal that we design almost all of our efficacy studies to control for it, why in gods name are we not trying to harness the placebo effect? Instead we go to great lengths to ignore it. Just one more example of what I see as one sided thinking. Budge thinks that mammograms kill and that everything a western trained Dr says is crap. Glenn thinks Budge is completely peddling bad advice which will kill people unnecessarily. They can’t both be right, but they can both be wrong. That’s how I see it. Btw I walk the walk. I get acupuncture twice a week for a lower back that a long string of pain management Drs haven’t been able to do much with. The acupuncture lets me go from Oxycodone to Ibuprofen. BUT, if I get hit by a bus or develop MRSA, please don’t take me to my acupuncturist. The emergency room will do just fine thank you.

Great episode, wonderful story. I am a distributor in Southern Cal and would be honored to be involved.

Is it the prejudices you love or the inaccuracies?

Hi Gary, I'm from the Netherlands and watch youre shows every friday for years now with a bottle of wine and some cheese (I'm now drinking a glass of Domaine des Bosquets 2006 (euro 18,75)). I'm enjoying WLT! Keep up the good work! Ben

Right on, Just Jack!! You are correct, of course, about the “good days and bad” possibility, and I truly was trying to be as nonjudgmental as I could concerning the man’s horrible postings (plural), but I must point out that this person DOES HAVE a greater responsibility than most to be positive but straightfoward, educated but open minded and willing to learn, firm but compassionate in a way that is beneficial to other human beings. HE chose a career in medicine. That makes him accountable for his actions in this chatroom. I agree that he is an educated man, but that being the case, IMO the general public would be better served if he had gone into a career in law or engineering or some other profession where a modicum of common decency is not as important to the very lives of the people he comes into contact with.
Concerning faith actually working… Today, most of us look back at the times of bleeding patients with leeches to get the ‘sanguine’ essence out of them, drilling holes in folks’ heads to let the pressure out or to make the insanity go away rather “naive and backwards”, wouldn’t you say? 🙂
Overall, though, I must bow to your milder response… it being the right one.

BTW I wasn’t dissing accupunture as much as I was making the point that mankind simply does not know as much as he thinks he does… “…Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools…”

Agreed. Agreed, and almost completely agreed. Without talking about anyone in particular (for the reasons I mentioned earlier and in the interest of preserving comity within the WL family), the only point I would take issue with is the idea that someone who shouldn’t wield a scalpel should be given a badge and a gun. Having been on the wrong side of policy misconduct when I was younger I can tell you it can get real deadly real fast if a cop has a bad attitude. So other than the law enforcement idea I am with you 110%. And please don’t misunderstand. I didn’t think for a second you were dogging acupuncture. It just happened to be the example that applied to me personally.

It is also funny you should bring up the bleeding issue. I guess great minds think alike because I was driving down the road tonight (I find it the best place to drive), and I was thinking about finding a quote from someone back in the day claiming that anybody who didn’t agree with bleeding was “down right barbaric”. I got home only to find you had beaten me to the punch 🙂

awesome gary support this project you cheap bastards this is a love project . Bye and give away if anything as a gift, have a heart!!

Hey Randall, disregard half of what I wrote below. I just reread your post and you never mentioned law enforcement. You said law and I was reading it at midnight so that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it lol.

One of the greatest episodes of WLTV ever!!!
Sad to hear about your wife Budge.. You are doing a great job helping other women and their families.
QOTD: The first thing that comes to my mind would be knowledge. Read, learn and talk to many different people about it.