A bitter fight over who can be called 'doctor' - Page 2

RightinNYC · 06-09-08, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Summerwind

Also you are attempting to suggest that people won't switch back and forth as needed; I think this is also a fallacy for MOST people. Some will be die-hard one way or the other, but most will use some common sense and some personal evaluations to choose what and when.

I'd simply argue that most people are stupid as hell and would be prone to misunderstanding the difference between a real doctor and one of these quacks.

A "doctor" is someone who graduated from a AMA-accredited medical school and passed their state-required boards. Period, end of discussion. I can't believe Minn. is being this absurd.

Also, good to see you shua.

RightinNYC · 06-09-08, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by 1069

Most people would rather have an aromatic jojoba-oil-and-rose-hip massage and
have some healing crystals placed upon their foreheads while envisioning a healing white light than have parts of themselves cut off and toxic substances pumped into their bodies that cause all their hair fall out and make them puke until they feel their stomachs will rupture.

However, only one of these treatments holds the key to possible survival.
There's no reason a person shouldn't have both, if they want to.
But they should understand that only one is actually treating their illness. The other is only for fun and relaxation purposes.

very well put.

rivrrat · 06-09-08, 10:12 PM

I use home treatments before going to the doctor almost exclusively.

Tea Tree Oil has cured tonsillitis, yeast infections, athletes foot type infections (more like "foot rot"), skin infections, ear infections, etc. Garlic oil has also gotten rid of ear aches/infections. Tea Tree Oil is my goddess.

Every time a doctor gives me antibiotics, I hesitate in taking them. I try to fight it other ways first. I currently have three bottles of unused antibiotics in my medicine cabinet. I fricken HATE taking antibiotics.

Lavender oil helps my migraines sometimes. That's smelling it. Since certain smells can trigger a migraine for me, why doesn't it make sense that certain smells could make it go away?

So, some people "buy into" the "nonesense" because we have tried and true positive experience with it.

WI Crippler · 06-09-08, 11:07 PM

I don't use anything at all. I haven't had to. If I have a cold or flu or bad headache or sore back or sore knee, I just push through it without any kind of medicine(prescription or OTC) or "natural" remedy and eventually it goes away on its own. If I ever get something bad, it will be bad enough that herbs aren't going to cure/fix it and I will eventually have to go to the hospital. I'm just doing my part to help keep costs down.

RightinNYC · 06-10-08, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by WI Crippler

I don't use anything at all. I haven't had to. If I have a cold or flu or bad headache or sore back or sore knee, I just push through it without any kind of medicine(prescription or OTC) or "natural" remedy and eventually it goes away on its own. If I ever get something bad, it will be bad enough that herbs aren't going to cure/fix it and I will eventually have to go to the hospital. I'm just doing my part to help keep costs down.

YouTube - put some tussin on it

shuamort · 06-10-08, 09:07 AM

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Originally Posted by RightinNYC

Also, good to see you shua.

Back at ya Right

WI Crippler · 06-10-08, 11:13 AM

I have to wonder where they are going to find malpractice insurance.

Simon W. Moon · 06-10-08, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Summerwind

I couldn't agree with you less. If you compare the overall success rates of naturopathy to "true medicine" and include all the pharma mistakes, all the infections that are introduced in hospitals and doctors' offices (ones that kill/infirm people who wouldn't have died if they hadn't gotten the infections from said sources), and all the misdiagnosies; I doubt that you'd find the success/failure rate to be dramaticallly different from one to the other.

Please do so. Please make this comparison and show us the data.