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- From: rkaplan@netcom.com (Richard Kaplan)
- Subject: Re: Asthma, adult onset
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.034058.9067@netcom.com>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 03:40:58 GMT
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- In article <1h7qpuINNk5q@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM>
- greg@antizen.EBay.Sun.COM writes:
-
- >As a hopeful future PA, I'm absolutely an advocate of Western medicine's
- >modern emergency care. I do hold serious doubts as to the effectiveness
- >of Western med. in terms of long-term health and healing. It's a shame
- >that the AMA has taken such an unreasonable stand against alternative
- >medicine despite years, even centuries of proven effectiveness.
-
- What proof?
-
- There is no doubt that Western medicine has much
- improvement to do in terms of research methodology
- and organization of its medical literature. However,
- the clear and proud distinction of Western medicine is
- that its methods are under constant revision/improvement
- due to a continual burdern of proof based upon public
- scrutiny of published objective scientific data subject
- to peer review -- something which, almost by definition,
- alternative medicine does not do.
-
-
- For an excellent discussion of this, see "A Critique of the
- Rationale for Cancer Treatment With Coffee Enemas and
- Diet" by Saul Green, PhD in JAMA 268(22):3224-3227. I
- will be very interested in your comments.
-
- On the other hand, if you can reference any scientifically
- sound studies of alternative therapies which you feel
- are inappropriately rejected by traditional medicine,
- please provide appropriate references to the "proof."
- No anecdotal reports or testimonials, please.
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