tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4519234397783312626.post280326570976308484..comments2023-10-09T11:42:57.305-04:00Comments on Healthcare, etc.: Allopathic medicine and CAM: Nonoverlapping magisteria revisited?Marya Zilberberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16080475886113209344noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4519234397783312626.post-1284084943660168982010-10-23T00:10:06.031-04:002010-10-23T00:10:06.031-04:00Another excellent piece. I still haven't read...Another excellent piece. I still haven't read through all your posts but I need to before commenting again as you've already covered some of these issues.<br /><br />Now I'm sure you have no problem seeing that I agree near 100% with this piece while also feeling disengaged about CAM myself, as per my comment on your more recent post. So, how informed do you feel medical clinicians should be about CAM? Do you feel that is part of your role? Go on, I can take it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4519234397783312626.post-75177969044513497622010-09-23T17:41:25.425-04:002010-09-23T17:41:25.425-04:00I think you've missed the point. You state, &q...I think you've missed the point. You state, "If yoga gives me a sense of well-being, yet there are no randomized controlled trials to validate this assertion, so what?" I agree. So what. For me the problem arises when you label yoga medicine and lead people to believe that it will, not might, but will, provide important health benefits when you don't have evidence that that is true and when in fact obtaining such evidence would be difficult or impossible. <br />I'm old enough to remember doing yoga because it seemed like an interesting form of exercise. The stretching exercises were similar to those done in ballet classes although there we were taught never to rotate a hinge joint. Many practiced yoga to relax and because they enjoyed it. But relaxing and enjoying something don't seem to be valid reasons for doing things anymore. Now you have to convince yourself and everyone else that anything worth doing is a preventive or curative treatment for disease.<br />I too saw your links when they appeared in your comments on MedPage. The article had been forwarded to me. I unsubscribed myself from the site for several reasons, one of which was that they didn't publish my links with my comments.<br />http://rosemaryjacobs.com<br />http://rosemary-jacobs.blogspot.comRosemary Jacobshttp://rosemaryjacobs.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4519234397783312626.post-77966481959768805042010-08-20T05:56:34.313-04:002010-08-20T05:56:34.313-04:00A very balanced article.It is great to find that t...A very balanced article.It is great to find that there are Doctors in Allopathy/Modern Medicine who are having an open mind.As a Qualified Homeopathy Medicine graduate and practitioner,the attitude of my fellow MBBS doctors used to surprise me for 2 reasons.One-in India we learn everthing same at a graduate level except the Pharma/Homeopathic Medicines part and second-both the systems do not fully address the maladies affecting Human system.However ,both are needed in this world for healing!<br />Thank you very much.I came to read your article folloing a link on KevinMD.Dr.Pramod Mennenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16650547693323591762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4519234397783312626.post-85039860067460954612010-08-12T13:11:56.006-04:002010-08-12T13:11:56.006-04:00Thank you for this post. I used to pooh-pooh alter...Thank you for this post. I used to pooh-pooh alternative treatments, too, until we moved to Mexico, an area without many people from the USA but with excellent medical care. Here, the doctors come from a culture which traditionally -- whether one is educated in a western sense or is a country person -- unselfconsciously holds a more complete view of what it means to be a human being. Thus, doctors are aware that more than science and indeed more than the addition of socio-economic status affect treatment outcome.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com