What is your perspective on tick-borne illnesses and long-term, low impact neural infections (brucellosis, salmonella, etc), ? It seems to me that there are a lot of stories about people finding out they had some long term chronic disease because nobody tested for simple infections in their joints or brain. It is more common to test for Lyme disease now, but not for all of the other insect-borne or food-borne diseases. More people are keeping pets, watching cooking shows and experimenting with different foods, but few have the cultural knowledge that prevents illness.

Some years ago, there was a recall of steroid drugs and it turned out that orthopedic doctors were injecting people with salmonella-contaminated medicine. How often does this kind of thing really happen and who is really testing for it?

I think there is a dangerous amount of blind faith in the medical system these days, and an even more dangerous dependency on profit-based patient interactions.