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"Jan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Subject: Re: Effective liver cleanse?
I wonder if David has the slightest clue as to why nearly one-half of
people
Quoted message said:are turning to alternative medicine??
Must be sumpin wrong with conventional.
Jan
Once again, let me point out how the world really works. The "turn" is to
conventional medicine. It's true that "alternative medicine" in all its
variants is at a peak of popularity that is a product of the "New Age"
movement of the '70's. So all those new-agers, now adults with disposable
income and still distrustful of conventional authority, seek their routine
medical care from the naturopaths and psychic healers who feed into their
mystical, spiritual worldview, and sell them a feel-good style of
healthcare. This is fine for the everyday, self-limiting kind of illnesses
that young people tend to get. But when they get REALLY ill or injured, they
come running back to the old family doc, or to the emergency room, usually
bypassing the aromatherapist and iridologist entirely, knowing instinctively
where the REAL medical help is. Jan's fantasy of the patient going to the
doctor and getting no help, then finding satisfaction from alternative
medicine happens only to sufferers of psychosomatic disorders. An even for
them, the trend is to leap from one alternative modality to the next,
experiencing a miraculous "cure" with each, only to relapse until another
book or website sells them on another "therapy."
Chiropractors, accupuncturists, and massage therapists do get an overflow of
chronic pain patients from conventional medicine, because chronic pain is
often incurable, and difficult to manage, so patients seek symptomatic
relief from these other sources. But even these patients are, almost without
exception, still taking their prescription medications for pain, and still
go to their doctor for their other healthcare needs.
Even terminal cancer patients who get defrauded by altie quacks offering
cancer cures usually continue their chemo and radiation treatments as well.
A few MHA posters have stated that they will NEVER go to a regular doctor.
It'll be interesting to see what alternative therapy they select for a femur
fracture or a myocardial infarction or a gastro-intestinal hemorrhage.
--Rich
