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Beware of Alternative Medicine
Today, medicine has a high ability to fight disease and yet, people are increasingly turning to so-called alternative medicines. Perhaps one of the factors responsible for this fact is the loss of human approach in traditional medicine. The mass of the consultations, the long lines to make an appointment with other specialists, x-rays, analysis, etc., Become a doctor’s visit into an odyssey of paperwork.
In a situation like this is normal to proliferate other ways of understanding healing in the higher priority given humane treatment, listening to the patient, knowing their background and personal factors that may influence their discomfort.
However, it should clarify that not all alternative medicines are the same. Above all there is to discard all therapies related to witchcraft, shamanism, faith healing and healers who are not qualified to practice medicine. Unfortunately, in most cases only to pursue profit.
Likewise, there are swindlers who used pseudo-scientific jargon to try to sell Read the rest of this entry »