QUOTE(Sihambodoh @ Jan 26 2024, 01:48 AM)
I appreciate your views. But is there nothing positive from alternative medicine? Have you ever had a sickness which Western medicine couldn't cure but you got it cured through alternative treatments?
The impression I'm getting is that most people believe everything should be fixed with surgery or drugs and there is absolutely no benefit whatsoever with nutrition or fasting to ones health. Even on the topic of fighting cancer, those anecdotal stories you hear here and there. Or from testimonials you can find online, are we saying all of them are untrue? That western medicine is the only thing which can cure cancer?
I'm sure you have heard that is a drug works on 100 people, it doesn't mean it works for all people.
Can we not give some credit to any non drug based treatment? Really none at all? Absolute bs?
I’ll give you a couple of pertinent reasons why I would advocate for allopathic medicine (that is the proper nomenclature to apply, it is not “Western” medicine) and not alternative methods as far as disease (not only cancer) treatment is concerned.
Firstly, as a doctor, governed by the rules and statutes that both protect as well as prosecute practitioners, I don’t have the luxury to quote statistically improbable, anecdotal cases that may be a mathematical outlier to give false hope to patients. We have to deal with empirical evidence and the evidence must be backed up by statistical outcomes.
A tik-tokker can claim that his words in his videos are for entertainment purposes when his “advice” causes the death of a follower. A doctor has no such defense.
Secondly, unlike proponents of alternative methods, allopathic medicine does not reject an alternative suggestion but instead subjects it to rigorous scientific scrutiny and research. If the statistics and the trials demonstrate efficacy and safety above and beyond that which can be attributed to chance (ie statistically significant outcome), then, the alternative method is incorporated into allopathic medicine and ceases to be labelled “alternative”. A prime example would be the use of artemisinin for malaria treatment.
It’s not us versus “them”, but that’s not often the case with supporters of alternative approaches. They will reject allopathic treatment and hype up the side effects without acknowledging the benefits, and they are quick to quote anecdotal cases of unexpected or unexplained “healing” without understanding why, or even ensuring the full facts are listed (eg the case quoted re colon cancer and carotene hyperdoses - surgery was conveniently left out of the whole story).
I hope this gives you a snippet into the view commonly held by doctors when it comes to alternative strategies.
This post has been edited by hksgmy: Jan 26 2024, 07:12 AM 
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