Complementary Medicine?

Conventional medicine and alternative medicine can work together. Click our title to review one of our essays on a situation faced by several doctors using alternative medicine combined with alternative medicine and see what you think.

Sometime alternative medicine is misunderstood by the traditional medical community. In several cases it appeared that the physicians were singled out and had their ability to practice medicine called into play. In all sectors both conventional and alternative there can be disreputable practitioners, but to smear the entire alternative community as such is simply wrong. Here is an excerpt from our expose.

"While the public clamors for more access to alternative medical therapies, alternative physicians are still being singled out by state medical boards. New York might be the worst offender. The physicians they have prosecuted reads like a "Who's Who" of alternative medicine. In the past that state's Office of Professional Medical Conduct (OPMC) has brought charges against Dr. Robert Atkins, whose low-carbohydrate diet is finally receiving validation after 30 years of professional ridicule and harassment; Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez, who recently received a $1.4 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to test his alternative cancer therapy; Dr. Warren Levin, who opened the first holistic health center in New York in 1974; cancer pioneers Dr.s. Emmanuel Revici and Michael Schachter; and famed Lyme disease doctors Joseph Burrascano and Charles Gant."...

"...Not all alternative therapies are antagonistic to conventional medicine: They often complement each other and, when used in tandem, are what is termed "complementary" medicine. Neither is every physician who calls him- or herself alternative competent or even ethical, any more or less than conventional doctors. But patients have a right to decide what kinds of therapies they receive, with requirements of informed consent built in as safeguards."

We think that you will agree, that the consumer is the one who should make the choice in regard to conventional, alternative, or complementary, and that the choice of a physician is a personal one and one not to be legislated. Let us know your comments to this blog, by clicking the comment link below. You can post anonymously if you choose.