Re: Complementary and Alternative Medicine is Mainstream

tcarter2_at_elp.rr.com
Date: 01/02/05 

Date: 2 Jan 2005 10:10:23 -0800

Hi,
The strongest reason patients don't reveal thier use of natural
medicine to their doctors is DOCTORS DON'T ASK. Doctors are
in much better position than patients to be aware of what they need to
know and they seldom ask about the use of vitamin, mineral, or other
supplemental use even tho over half of their patients make use of them.
Another contributing reason is that patients feel such disclosure will
alter their doctor's feelings towards them for the worse. While
patients bear the brunt of responsibility for this secondary reason,
the antagonistic attitude of doctors towards supplemental use is also
causitive in this respect as well.
Blame, is a pecular noun. While devoid of mass or energy, it
nevertheless carries sigficant weight, and when tossed about always
lands on the other side of a fence.

Thomas

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