(August 29, 2011 at 8:49 am)Rhythm Wrote: If a medical treatment is ineffective (not just in one person but ineffective) then it is not used. There are controls in place which prevent such treatments from being leveraged in mainstream medicine. A treatment that has not yet had it's effect proven may be leveraged in a case study, and the participants must be willing after having been informed of the nature of the treatment (that is obviously here, in the US, though things slip through the cracks).
Much more slips through the cracks is my point Rhythm. Your mainstream medicine is staffed by overworked and underpaid people who make mistakes (same here in Oz) Your mainstream medicine is governed by a central body that has no thought for the individual practitioner let alone the individual patient. Your mainstream medicine is costly because of litigation and insurance and the fact that while mainstream medicine is a slave to the pharmaceutical companies those said companies are able to manipulate the govt and the medical mainstream to conduct their "field trials" for them. how many drugs have been recalled BECAUSE ordinary people have complained (Bitterly) to the authorities??
No I do not revere the men in white coats..like our politicians they are just as suspect in my view; and I wouldn't take that page you offered as gospel either .
To do so is to make medicine, science, and politics as religion ...something they were never meant to be.
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
