Re: Andrew Weil on Health and Disease
From: Peter Moran (moringa_at_gil.com.au)
Date: 02/27/05
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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:50:54 +1000
"Tim" <timcall@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> "I would look elsewhere than conventional medicine for help if I
> contracted a severe viral disease like hepatitis or polio, or a
> metabolic disease like diabetes. I would not seek allopathic (M.D.)
> treatment for cancer, except for a few varieties, or for such chronic
> ailments as arthritis, asthma, hypertension, MS, or for many other
> chronic diseases of the digestive, circulatory, musculoskeletal, and
> nervous systems. Although allopaths give lip service to the concept of
> preventive medicine, for practical purposes they are unable to prevent
> most of the diseases that disable and kill people today."
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Was this in his earlier and sillier days? Nowadays Andrew Weil promotes
"integrative medicine" where the "alternative" works alongside conventional
medicine.
Such shared responsibility is an ideal arrangement for those with quaint
ideas about medicine. You have no real responsibility for outcomes and
no need to prove anything you claim. You can claim credit for any good
outcomes, and allot the blame elsewhere for the bad.
You can sling off endlessly against doctors who have to get out of bed in
the middle of the night to save lives and who have the primary
responsibility for dealing with tough illnesses. You can even call them
meaningless names (all medicine that is not homeopathy is "allopathic",
including all "alternative" medicine).
Peter Moran
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