The CAM Thread

[KichigaiNeko]

Another explanation may be found in examining what CAMers are offering that mainstream physicians are not: TLC. By this I do not just mean a hand squeeze or a hug, but an open and honest relationship with patients and their families that provides a realistic assessment of the medical condition and prospects. People are going alternative because in too many instances physicians have become highly skilled technicians—cogs in the cold machinery and massive bureaucracy of modern HMO medicine.

I am thinking that the above statement is the main reason why people are turning to CAM.

Mind you CAM has it's uses. You can't fix a dislocated joint with pharmaceuticals. NO amount of drugs are going to ease a headache caused by spinal misalignment. But homeopathy utterly escapes my reasoning....why would anyone want to use that???

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Ideally, in a controlled experiment, we would like to be at least 95–99 percent confident that the results were not due to chance before we offer our provisional assent that the effect may be real.

I find this comment interesting as most pharmaceuticals are released with less % confidence and many people are diagnosed against a "statistical average norm" whatever that number is (but I am convinced it is less than the 95-99 percentile)