Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Socially, in most groups I tempered my conversations on my approach to health because those who entrusted their lives to allopathic, 'standard of care' Western doctors might not want to entertain the idea that they might have made the wrong choice or that their way wasn't the best way.
There are some fantastic, brilliant alternative doctors out there.
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.
I want doctors to treat toward health and not treat toward disease.
Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.
Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.
Mind-body medicine should not be an 'alternative,' nor should complementary and integrative medicine be something doctors are not exposed to during their training.
Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?
There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.