# Content directory for medical teams **URL:** \ **Category:** Exploring our relationship with plants\ **Created:** [31 January 2023 00:32 UTC](https://treehouse.sofi.health/t/content-directory-for-medical-teams/6418 "2023-01-31T00:32:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![alexwalkerjones](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/treehouse.sofi.health/alexwalkerjones/32/11_2.png) [@alexwalkerjones](https://treehouse.sofi.health/u/alexwalkerjones)\ **Post date:** [31 January 2023 08:58 UTC](https://treehouse.sofi.health/t/content-directory-for-medical-teams/6418/3 "2023-01-31T08:58:22Z")
I also want to thank you for posting this question, as we know we still have a long way to go until plant remedies become an accepted (and recommended) standard of non-urgent care. But it’s our mission to help people discover the plants that can help them in their journey for better sleep and reduced anxiety and to combine both scientific analysis, individual analysis [(N-of-1)](https://sofi.health/what-is-n-of-1/), and personal experience (as told, and journaled by us, as Pioneers). There are some posts in the treehouse by Dr @stephendahmermd that help to explain the importance of this in part, so I’ll link those below for anyone interested, as well some related articles from the discussion section of the sofi blog. > [@Sofi studies | on the science of people and plants](https://treehouse.sofi.health/t/sofi-studies-on-the-science-of-people-and-plants/1268/5): > > Love this @Kaveh and one KEY reason of MANY you find me here in this beautiful tree house. Many of us don’t realize that most patients don’t benefit from many of the routine medications I prescribe as a physician. There’s a fancy term for this: numbers needed to treat (NNT). In the common tongue, for medications, this refers to the total numebr of patients I need to treat with a specific medication for ONE to repond in the way we hoped. A concrete example - I need to prescribe 104 patients w… > [@Sofi studies | on the science of people and plants](https://treehouse.sofi.health/t/sofi-studies-on-the-science-of-people-and-plants/1268/12): > > What a great discussion. Thank you @dcasarett Agree with @Kaveh: The Pioneer decides. Long left out of the efficacy question in medicine is “patient preference”. Even as a physician - once a patient walks out the door - only they will decide whether or not to continue with a therapy as suggested/prescribed. No matter how much I believe in the the therapy - or how definitive the research to support it - or even how much I “convince” them - the decision on efficacy (which runs parallel in my … **Blog posts:** [10 reasons for the disconnect between plant-based medicine and mainstream healthcare](https://sofi.health/10-reasons-for-the-disconnect-between-plant-based-medicine-and-mainstream-healthcare/) [how traditional plant remedies become our modern drugs](https://sofi.health/how-traditional-plant-medicines-became-our-modern-drugs/) [the synergy of plants and modern medicine with Dr Stephen Dahmer](https://sofi.health/the-synergy-of-plants-and-modern-medicine/) --- _[View the full topic](https://treehouse.sofi.health/t/content-directory-for-medical-teams/6418)._