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Alternative healthcare doesn't exist. If it works, it's just Healthcare....if it doesn't, it gets called "alternative"

• jonsen 9y ago
  Alternative logic.
• teslabox 9y ago
  What do you call healthcare that doesn't work, but is commonly used anyways? For example, Propublica's article says stents usually don't help improve patients' conditions: https://www.propublica.org/article/when-evidence-says-no-but-doctors-say-yes https://www.propublica.org/article/when-evidence-says-no-but... I like the term 'monopoly medicine', but maybe there's a better term.
  • chrisan 9y ago
    That would be a misuse of healthcare. Just because a developer has all of the tools available, doesn't mean they can build a solid working app.
  • behindmyscreen 9y ago
    Medicine is an applied science and as with all applied sciences, new knowledge is hard to get into practice among the older crowd. So, while stent placement in specific cases did not improve the outcomes, getting practitioners comfortable with doing nothing takes time.
• dade_ 9y ago
  I find your comment ironic, considering the basis of the whole articles was very alternative: "Brainwaves were first noticed by German psychiatrist Hans Berger. In 1929, he published a paper describing the repeating waves of current he observed when he placed electrodes on people’s scalps. It was the world’s first electroencephalogram (EEG) recording — but nobody took much notice. Berger was a controversial figure who had spent much of his career trying to identify the physiological basis of psychic phenomena. It was only after his colleagues began to confirm the results several years later that Berger’s invention was recognized as a window into brain activity."