Alternative
medicine popularity
caused by a great interest to different Oriental philosophies and
theories concerning life and state of health in particular has no
support in the world of conventional medicine. Will these two branches
always contradict or a compromise can be made? Reading different
articles, it seems to me that alternative medicine criticism
has been forever. Every time something new appeared in the world of
doctors and treatment, there were a lot of indignant exclamations. But
of course, I don't want to tell that health alternative
medicine has no drawbacks and on the whole is better than
standard methods of treatment. But don't negate everything!
Do you agree with me that as usual a patient doesn't want to tell his
doctor that he starts to follow some alternative
medicine branches?
Why is it so? Just because a patient doesn't want to destroy the good
relationship with a doctor. But on the contrary, it will be better if a
doctor can examine a patient taking into account his new "passion". So,
in this case the usual alternative medicine criticism is harmful for
both of them. Well, someone may raise an objection that a doctor should
worn a patient about different side effects, that's all. I don't agree
with it. We can read about side-effects, various prices and history of
alternative medicine just visiting alternative
medicine online sites. What we need is a support of a person
who we trust. And I suppose a doctor should be such a person.
But what as usual he says us? Don't do it, because it is harmful
(stupid, out of the question, useless). Sounds not very earnestly,
especially for a person who needs hope and tries to struggle with some
disease using any possibility. So, probably it is better to communicate
with patients and try to explain them not only drawbacks, but also
advantages of such treatment. So, that he really has the opportunity to
make the right choice!
The other thing is that the most part of scientists and physicians
prefer to speak about this only on different meetings or publish their
reports in different scientific magazines. But common people don't read
them! As usual we read ordinary newspapers or look for information in
the Internet, so even your reasonable alternative medicine criticism
can't be heard and taken into consideration.
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