Abstract
Although orthodox medicine trains general medical practitioners to comprehensively treat the whole patient and to refer to specialists only when patients present ailments exceeding the knowledge and skills of the practitioner, specialists continually face challenges in ensuring that their specialty careers are mutually interdependent and intertwined with total patient care. [...]
Highlights
Orthodox medicine trains general medical practitioners to comprehensively treat the whole patient and to refer to specialists only when patients present ailments exceeding the knowledge and skills of the practitioner, specialists continually face challenges in ensuring that their specialty careers are mutually interdependent and intertwined with total patient care
Too many patients are presenting to orthodox medicine too late for effective therapy because they have attended alternative medicine clinics
Some successful reports have been published of alternative medicine in non-orthodox disciplines, including oncology, serious comment on these claims of cure is warranted
Summary
Orthodox medicine trains general medical practitioners to comprehensively treat the whole patient and to refer to specialists only when patients present ailments exceeding the knowledge and skills of the practitioner, specialists continually face challenges in ensuring that their specialty careers are mutually interdependent and intertwined with total patient care. Consumer-led demands for alternative therapies allow many people to seek care from a wide variety of traditions, each of which has its own anecdotal claims of success These alternative traditions include acupuncture, aromatherapy, biofeedback, chiropractic, laying-on of healing hands, herbalism, hydrotherapy, homeopathy, hypnosis, massage, naturopathy, osteopathy, radiesthesia, reflexology, shiatsu, and yoga, among many other unconventional approaches 1. Those traditions fail to recognize early changes that herald neoplastic alterations. Too many patients are presenting to orthodox medicine too late for effective therapy because they have attended alternative medicine clinics This situation applies to early recognition of neoplastic change or late-stage carcinoma. Some successful reports have been published of alternative medicine in non-orthodox disciplines, including oncology, serious comment on these claims of cure is warranted
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