Increased Popularity Of Alternative Medicine In U.S.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medi...p?newsid=37182

New York Times Examines Increased Popularity Of Alternative Medicine In U.S.

JanD wrote:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medi...p?newsid=37182

New York Times Examines Increased Popularity Of Alternative Medicine In U.S.

Good article:

"the rate [of use of alternative therapies] continues to increase "for
reasons that have as much to do with increasing distrust of mainstream
medicine and the psychological appeal of nontraditional approaches as
with the therapeutic properties of herbs or other supplements." U.S.
residents "do not appear to care that there is little, if any, evidence
that many of the therapies work"; that "alternative therapy
practitioners do not have a fraction of the training mainstream doctors
do"; or that vitamin and dietary supplement manufacturers "are as
profit-driven" as pharmaceutical manufacturers, the Times reports. "

"cathyb wrote:

JanD wrote:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medi...p?newsid=37182

New York Times Examines Increased Popularity Of Alternative Medicine In
U.S.

Good article:

"the rate [of use of alternative therapies] continues to increase "for
reasons that have as much to do with increasing distrust of mainstream
medicine.

snip

U.S. residents who use alternative or complementary treatments often have a
"sense of disappointment" or "betrayal" related to a "misdiagnosis, an
intolerable drug, failed surgery, a dismissive doctor" or "haggles with
insurance providers, conflicting findings from medical studies and news
reports of drug makers' covering up product side effects," according to the
Times. "Whatever the benefits and risks of its many concoctions and methods,
alternative medicine offers them at least the promise of affectionate care,
unhurried service, freedom from prescription drug side effects and the
potential for feeling not just better but also spiritually charged,"

JanD wrote:
"cathyb wrote:

JanD wrote:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medi...p?newsid=37182

New York Times Examines Increased Popularity Of Alternative Medicine In
U.S.

Good article:

"the rate [of use of alternative therapies] continues to increase "for
reasons that have as much to do with increasing distrust of mainstream
medicine.

snip

I'm not sure why you snipped a quote from an article you yourself
posted; I'll charitably assume you were just having a Lollipop moment,
and restore it for you:

"the rate [of use of alternative therapies] continues to increase "for
reasons that have as much to do with increasing distrust of mainstream
medicine and the psychological appeal of nontraditional approaches as
with the therapeutic properties of herbs or other supplements." U.S.
residents "do not appear to care that there is little, if any, evidence

that many of the therapies work"; that "alternative therapy
practitioners do not have a fraction of the training mainstream doctors

do"; or that vitamin and dietary supplement manufacturers "are as
profit-driven" as pharmaceutical manufacturers, the Times reports. "


U.S. residents who use alternative or complementary treatments often have a
"sense of disappointment" or "betrayal" related to a "misdiagnosis, an
intolerable drug, failed surgery, a dismissive doctor" or "haggles with
insurance providers, conflicting findings from medical studies and news
reports of drug makers' covering up product side effects," according to the
Times. "Whatever the benefits and risks of its many concoctions and methods,
alternative medicine offers them at least the promise of affectionate care,
unhurried service, freedom from prescription drug side effects and the
potential for feeling not just better but also spiritually charged,"

Exactly. Taking the article as a whole, conventional medicine has to
work on attitude, regaining trust and the interface between the
economic and medical models, whilst alternative medicine has to work on
the facts that its therapies don't work, and that the only reason
they're cleaning up is mistrust of conventional medicine.

As I said, good article.