What do doctors say to 'alternative therapists' when a patient dies? Nothing.

[Northerner]

The consultation is over and I stand to escort her out. Through the open door, I notice the waiting row of patients staring drearily at the television.

“But I am not done yet,” my patient says plaintively. “I still have questions.”

She’s already extended a 30-minute consult and I’m pushed for time. From her purse, she unfurls a long list. With its different colours, arrows and flags it looks like a complicated transit map.

“Should I have my intravenous vitamins on the day of chemo or after it?”

I don’t have a chance to answer before she continues: “Can you move my chemo appointment to fit in a colon cleanse? They are really busy, you know. Booked out weeks in advance.”

http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...sts-when-a-patient-dies-nothing-we-never-talk

 

[Copepod]

This article, by a clinical oncologist, deserves to be read by everyone - a fair consideration of alternative / complementary therapies. Especially by anyone considering abandoning conventional medicine for other therapy / therapies.

Best read in combination with this article about a young woman who followed Gerson therapy for her epithelioid sarcome [a rare soft tissue cancer]:
http://www.theguardian.com/australi...ustralia-wellness-warrior-dies-cancer-aged-30

 

[trophywench]

You'll never cure the nutters of this world whether they turn to violence against some group of other humans for imaginary slights against their person or beliefs - or alternative medicine.