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Natalie Grams (born 12 April 1978 in Munich, Germany) is a German physician and author. Formerly a practicing homeopath, she became known throughout Germany as a whistleblower for her 2015 debut book Homeopathy Reconsidered — What Really Helps Patients. In 2016 she joined the German Council of Science and Humanities and in January 2017 became Communications Manager for the skeptical Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences (GWUP). [1] She also serves on the advisory board of the humanist Giordano Bruno Foundation since May 2017, [2] and as vice president of the Humanist Press Foundation in Germany since October 2017. [3] In May 2017 her second book, Gesundheit — A Book Not Without Side Effects, was published.
Grams grew up in Bavaria, where she graduated high school in 1997. She studied medicine at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Technical University of Munich, and Heidelberg University, where in 2005 she gained licensure as a physician in Germany. [4] [5] In 2007 she received her doctorate as a medical faculty member at the University of Zurich. Until 2009 she was an intern at a private religiously-affiliated hospital in Heidelberg, where she specialized in geriatric and palliative medicine.
In 2004, in parallel with her medical education, Grams began pursuing education in traditional Chinese medicine and homeopathy. She completed her homeopathic education with an additional professional designation in that area, [6] and was active exclusively in private homeopathic practice from 2009 through 2015.
In May 2015 her first book Homeopathy Reconsidered — What Really Helps Patients was published by Springer Verlag in German (German title Homöopathie neu gedacht – Was Patienten wirklich hilft). She abandoned her homeopathic activity the same year. [7] Grams is currently active as a science communicator. [8]
Grams is an authority, and a leading participant in public debate, on the subject of homeopathy. [9] [10] As a practicing homeopathic doctor she was interviewed by journalists Christian Weymayr and Nicole Heißmann for their book The Homeopathy Lie (German title: Die Homöopathie-Lüge). [11] Upon reading that book's criticism of homeopathy, Grams wanted to write a rebuttal from the homeopathic perspective.
Instead, her research on this rebuttal and her intensive consideration of scientific findings [12] [13] on the subject of homeopathy led Grams to revise her own views. Rather than the planned defense, her first book Homeopathy Reconsidered — What Really Helps Patients, published in May 2015, turned out to be a critical examination of the discipline. The book is especially critical of claims that homeopathy constitutes a specific drug therapy. [14] Grams tried to be empathetic in her writing style, intending for the reader to "feel [her] agony, discovering these facts about homeopathy." [15]
At the end of this learning process, Grams decided to abandon her own private homeopathic practice, and with it her previous economic livelihood, because she no longer wanted to offer therapies that she could not fully stand behind. [10] In explaining this decision, she draws a contrast between the lack of scientific support [12] [16] [17] for homeopathy and the positive aspects of a homeopathic setting, including the approachable and attentive style of patient care sometimes termed talking medicine.
Although Grams fundamentally opposes homeopathy as a discipline, she wishes to see mainstream health systems embrace the idea of better medicine — an effort to enable intensive attention to the patient in daily medical practice. [18]
The impact of Grams' position in print media, [19] [20] [14] [21] [22] [23] [24] radio, and television [25] [26] [27] [28] was an essential factor in the intensified German public discourse surrounding homeopathy since 2015. [29] [30] [31] [32] She delivered a talk at SkepKon 2017 titled Enlightenment about pseudomedicine: What have skeptics achieved? [33]
Along with author and homeopathy critic Norbert Aust, Grams co-founded the Information Network on Homeopathy (Informationsnetzwerk Homöopathie — INH) in 2016. [34] [35] [10] [36]
She lent her expertise as an author in support of the Münster Memorandum on Practitioners of Alternative Medicine, which aims to mitigate the potential for patient harm from therapists who lack academic medical education (Heilpraktiker — literally healing practitioners) by proposing a German regulatory framework to balance the concerns of patient autonomy and freedom of therapy against fairness to health insurance providers and insurees. [37] [38]
Grams took up the publication of her 2015 book with the intention of stimulating self-reflection among those in the homeopathic orbit. She has expressed regret that this introspection had not yet happened. Homeopaths who reviewed her first book have questioned the motivation behind her conversion and expressed astonishment that Grams did not "wash out" of her homeopathic education relatively early, given her doubts. [39] [40]
As of November 2017 [update] she was working on a book collecting and examining the many angry e-mails and comments she has received in response to her writing and activism. She hopes to reach people who hold the popular perception of homeopaths as "lovely, … empathetic, and good people" and prompt them to re-examine that opinion. [41]
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Der Zweifel kam, als ich lernte, dass Erfahrung bei der Wirksamkeitsbewertung einer Therapie nicht entscheidend ist, sondern das Ergebnis klinischer Studien.
Fakt ist: Wir haben keinen Anlass zu glauben, dass homöopathische Medikamente eine Wirkung haben, die über den Placebo-Effekt hinausgeht. Wenn eine Gruppe Ärzte standhaft behauptet, dass Homöopathie wirkt, muss man - zum Wohle der Patienten - widersprechen.
Ich habe erst durch ein Buch von Kahneman verstanden, das sich mit „schnellem und langsamen Denken" beschäftigt, dass ich der Homöopathie mit meinem schnellen intuitiven Denken, vielleicht „Bauchgefühlsdenken", angehangen habe, während ich sonst schon in der Lage zu rational-analytischem, also langsamen, Denken war. Ich habe die kognitive Dissonanz vermieden, indem ich die Homöopathie erst sehr spät auch rational hinterfragt habe.
Auslöser war ein Buch, das ich zur Verteidigung der Homöopathie schreiben wollte – als Reaktion auf das Buch „Die Homöopathie-Lüge". Bei der Recherche habe ich nach Argumenten gesucht, um die Erfolge, die ich jeden Tag mit Homöopathie erlebte, auch wissenschaftlich begründen zu können. Doch so sehr ich gesucht habe, ich musste feststellen: Es bleibt nicht viel übrig.
Homöopathie wirkt, weil wir als Homöopathen und weil unsere Patienten die Vorstellung haben, dass sie wirke.
Das war hart für mich, ich war da selbst so tief drin.
...Hahnemann war sehr klug, er hinterfragte alles, und die Medizin, gegen die er damals rebellierte, war beherrscht von Aberglauben und Therapien, die lebensgefährlich für die Patienten waren. Die Homöopathie war damals das kleinere Übel...
Hahnemann hat sich getäucht.
Die Homöopathie ist selbst ein Patient. Es fehlt ihr an Daten und Fakten, sie halluziniert und will ihre Krankheit nicht wahrhaben. Aber Krankheitseinsicht kann ein erster Schritt zur Genesung sein.
Bei der Homöopathie geht eine Wirksamkeit nicht über ein Placebo hinaus. Was nicht verwunderlich ist, da ihre Medikamente nichts enthalten.
Mir kam die Homöopathie immer wie so eine Art "Parallelwissen" vor, dass genauso erlaubt und berechtigt ist wie das naturwissenschaftliche Wissen. Es war schwer einzusehen, wie sehr ich mich da getäuscht habe.
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[[Natalie Grams]] (born 1978), German physician, writer, scientific skeptic, former [[Homeopathy|homeopath]]
Image:Fullsizeoutput 2a23.jpg||[[Natalie Grams]], German physician, author and [[Science communication|science communicator]], was a student at LMU Munich.
* [[Natalie Grams]], German physician, author and [[Science communication|science communicator]]
* ... that German author '''[[Natalie Grams]]''' set out to write a scientific defense of [[Homeopathy|homeopathy]], but instead became a prominent expert critic of the discipline after penning ''Homeopathy Reconsidered''?
* ... that German author and anti-[[Homeopathy|homeopathy]] campaigner '''[[Natalie Grams]]''' advocates "better medicine", in which mainstream health systems adopt elements of alternative medicine's focused attention to patients?
* ... that German author and physician '''[[Natalie Grams]]''' wants health systems to adopt a key aspect of [[Homeopathy|homeopathy]] — elevated attentiveness to patients — but not its scientifically implausible theory of action?
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Natalie Grams | |
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Years active | 2004-present |
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Website | natalie-grams.de (in German) |
Natalie Grams (born 12 April 1978 in Munich, Germany) is a German physician and author. Formerly a practicing homeopath, she became known throughout Germany as a whistleblower for her 2015 debut book Homeopathy Reconsidered — What Really Helps Patients. In 2016 she joined the German Council of Science and Humanities and in January 2017 became Communications Manager for the skeptical Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences (GWUP). [1] She also serves on the advisory board of the humanist Giordano Bruno Foundation since May 2017, [2] and as vice president of the Humanist Press Foundation in Germany since October 2017. [3] In May 2017 her second book, Gesundheit — A Book Not Without Side Effects, was published.
Grams grew up in Bavaria, where she graduated high school in 1997. She studied medicine at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Technical University of Munich, and Heidelberg University, where in 2005 she gained licensure as a physician in Germany. [4] [5] In 2007 she received her doctorate as a medical faculty member at the University of Zurich. Until 2009 she was an intern at a private religiously-affiliated hospital in Heidelberg, where she specialized in geriatric and palliative medicine.
In 2004, in parallel with her medical education, Grams began pursuing education in traditional Chinese medicine and homeopathy. She completed her homeopathic education with an additional professional designation in that area, [6] and was active exclusively in private homeopathic practice from 2009 through 2015.
In May 2015 her first book Homeopathy Reconsidered — What Really Helps Patients was published by Springer Verlag in German (German title Homöopathie neu gedacht – Was Patienten wirklich hilft). She abandoned her homeopathic activity the same year. [7] Grams is currently active as a science communicator. [8]
Grams is an authority, and a leading participant in public debate, on the subject of homeopathy. [9] [10] As a practicing homeopathic doctor she was interviewed by journalists Christian Weymayr and Nicole Heißmann for their book The Homeopathy Lie (German title: Die Homöopathie-Lüge). [11] Upon reading that book's criticism of homeopathy, Grams wanted to write a rebuttal from the homeopathic perspective.
Instead, her research on this rebuttal and her intensive consideration of scientific findings [12] [13] on the subject of homeopathy led Grams to revise her own views. Rather than the planned defense, her first book Homeopathy Reconsidered — What Really Helps Patients, published in May 2015, turned out to be a critical examination of the discipline. The book is especially critical of claims that homeopathy constitutes a specific drug therapy. [14] Grams tried to be empathetic in her writing style, intending for the reader to "feel [her] agony, discovering these facts about homeopathy." [15]
At the end of this learning process, Grams decided to abandon her own private homeopathic practice, and with it her previous economic livelihood, because she no longer wanted to offer therapies that she could not fully stand behind. [10] In explaining this decision, she draws a contrast between the lack of scientific support [12] [16] [17] for homeopathy and the positive aspects of a homeopathic setting, including the approachable and attentive style of patient care sometimes termed talking medicine.
Although Grams fundamentally opposes homeopathy as a discipline, she wishes to see mainstream health systems embrace the idea of better medicine — an effort to enable intensive attention to the patient in daily medical practice. [18]
The impact of Grams' position in print media, [19] [20] [14] [21] [22] [23] [24] radio, and television [25] [26] [27] [28] was an essential factor in the intensified German public discourse surrounding homeopathy since 2015. [29] [30] [31] [32] She delivered a talk at SkepKon 2017 titled Enlightenment about pseudomedicine: What have skeptics achieved? [33]
Along with author and homeopathy critic Norbert Aust, Grams co-founded the Information Network on Homeopathy (Informationsnetzwerk Homöopathie — INH) in 2016. [34] [35] [10] [36]
She lent her expertise as an author in support of the Münster Memorandum on Practitioners of Alternative Medicine, which aims to mitigate the potential for patient harm from therapists who lack academic medical education (Heilpraktiker — literally healing practitioners) by proposing a German regulatory framework to balance the concerns of patient autonomy and freedom of therapy against fairness to health insurance providers and insurees. [37] [38]
Grams took up the publication of her 2015 book with the intention of stimulating self-reflection among those in the homeopathic orbit. She has expressed regret that this introspection had not yet happened. Homeopaths who reviewed her first book have questioned the motivation behind her conversion and expressed astonishment that Grams did not "wash out" of her homeopathic education relatively early, given her doubts. [39] [40]
As of November 2017 [update] she was working on a book collecting and examining the many angry e-mails and comments she has received in response to her writing and activism. She hopes to reach people who hold the popular perception of homeopaths as "lovely, … empathetic, and good people" and prompt them to re-examine that opinion. [41]
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Der Zweifel kam, als ich lernte, dass Erfahrung bei der Wirksamkeitsbewertung einer Therapie nicht entscheidend ist, sondern das Ergebnis klinischer Studien.
Fakt ist: Wir haben keinen Anlass zu glauben, dass homöopathische Medikamente eine Wirkung haben, die über den Placebo-Effekt hinausgeht. Wenn eine Gruppe Ärzte standhaft behauptet, dass Homöopathie wirkt, muss man - zum Wohle der Patienten - widersprechen.
Ich habe erst durch ein Buch von Kahneman verstanden, das sich mit „schnellem und langsamen Denken" beschäftigt, dass ich der Homöopathie mit meinem schnellen intuitiven Denken, vielleicht „Bauchgefühlsdenken", angehangen habe, während ich sonst schon in der Lage zu rational-analytischem, also langsamen, Denken war. Ich habe die kognitive Dissonanz vermieden, indem ich die Homöopathie erst sehr spät auch rational hinterfragt habe.
Auslöser war ein Buch, das ich zur Verteidigung der Homöopathie schreiben wollte – als Reaktion auf das Buch „Die Homöopathie-Lüge". Bei der Recherche habe ich nach Argumenten gesucht, um die Erfolge, die ich jeden Tag mit Homöopathie erlebte, auch wissenschaftlich begründen zu können. Doch so sehr ich gesucht habe, ich musste feststellen: Es bleibt nicht viel übrig.
Homöopathie wirkt, weil wir als Homöopathen und weil unsere Patienten die Vorstellung haben, dass sie wirke.
Das war hart für mich, ich war da selbst so tief drin.
...Hahnemann war sehr klug, er hinterfragte alles, und die Medizin, gegen die er damals rebellierte, war beherrscht von Aberglauben und Therapien, die lebensgefährlich für die Patienten waren. Die Homöopathie war damals das kleinere Übel...
Hahnemann hat sich getäucht.
Die Homöopathie ist selbst ein Patient. Es fehlt ihr an Daten und Fakten, sie halluziniert und will ihre Krankheit nicht wahrhaben. Aber Krankheitseinsicht kann ein erster Schritt zur Genesung sein.
Bei der Homöopathie geht eine Wirksamkeit nicht über ein Placebo hinaus. Was nicht verwunderlich ist, da ihre Medikamente nichts enthalten.
Mir kam die Homöopathie immer wie so eine Art "Parallelwissen" vor, dass genauso erlaubt und berechtigt ist wie das naturwissenschaftliche Wissen. Es war schwer einzusehen, wie sehr ich mich da getäuscht habe.
Created new page. Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Natalie Grams]]; see its history for attribution.
[[Natalie Grams]] (born 1978), German physician, writer, scientific skeptic, former [[Homeopathy|homeopath]]
Image:Fullsizeoutput 2a23.jpg||[[Natalie Grams]], German physician, author and [[Science communication|science communicator]], was a student at LMU Munich.
* [[Natalie Grams]], German physician, author and [[Science communication|science communicator]]
* ... that German author '''[[Natalie Grams]]''' set out to write a scientific defense of [[Homeopathy|homeopathy]], but instead became a prominent expert critic of the discipline after penning ''Homeopathy Reconsidered''?
* ... that German author and anti-[[Homeopathy|homeopathy]] campaigner '''[[Natalie Grams]]''' advocates "better medicine", in which mainstream health systems adopt elements of alternative medicine's focused attention to patients?
* ... that German author and physician '''[[Natalie Grams]]''' wants health systems to adopt a key aspect of [[Homeopathy|homeopathy]] — elevated attentiveness to patients — but not its scientifically implausible theory of action?
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