Larry Dossey
| Larry Dossey | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1940 Groesbeck, Texas |
| Nationality | United States |
| Occupation | Alternative-medicine advocate, public speaker, writer, physician |
| Website | www |
Larry Dossey (born 1940,Groesbeck, Texas) is a physician and author who propounds the importance for healing of prayer, spirituality, and other non-physical factors.
According to his written biography on his personal website, Dossey graduated from University of Texas at Austin and received an M.D. from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas (1967). Dossey served as a battalion surgeon in Vietnam, being decorated for valor, and served as Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital (1982).
Dossey's writings and opinions have been controversial, having drawn both praise and criticism.
Surgical oncologist David Gorski has written that Dossey utilizes straw man arguments, misrepresents and misunderstands medical research and "the evidence base in favor of the woo that Dr. Dossey favors is pathetic in comparison to that supporting science-based medicine." In 2010 Dossey co-wrote a post in the Huffington Post called "The Mythology Of Science-Based Medicine" with Deepak Chopra and Rustum Roy, which Gorski characterized as "an exercise that combines cherry-picking, logical fallacies, and whining, raising the last of these almost to an art form."
Gary P. Posner, a physician, has criticized Dossey for writing "New Age psychobabble". Posner in a review has stated that Dossey uncritically accepts psychic powers, parapsychology experiments and dubious claims such as or "distant healing" as genuine, whilst ignoring the literature that has refuted these subjects.
Psychologist Robert A. Baker in a review for Dossey's Healing Words wrote that it is an entertaining book but "We'd all be better served-Dossey, his patients, his readers, and the general public-if Dossey would take his head out of the clouds, plant his feet on the ground, and stop talking nonsense. Everyone knows that evil looks won’t kill you. We also know that sticks and stones will break your bones and a doctor’s words alone-no matter how kind or gentle-will never heal you."
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