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I know, completely agree. But one thing that struck me the other day, I read a tweet from some random person that got retweeted a bunch. It went something like
by DrAwdeOccarim 7y ago
I know, completely agree. But one thing that struck me the other day, I read a tweet from some random person that got retweeted a bunch. It went something like this, "Don't shame me for looking to natural remedies/my doctor rolls my eyes when I tell him what my chiropractor suggests/my naturopath has never rolled their eyes at something my doctor has said." It made me sad also because so many people jumped in and said basically the same thing, how "western medicine" has failed us".
- brobdingnagians 7y agoModern medicine is wonderful for reducing deaths from childbirth, antibiotics, surgeries, etc. but for someone who has an "incurable" condition which stumps every doctor they've been to, imagine how frustrating it would be to be told every time that nothing can be done or every treatment just makes it worse? If someone else promised something, not based on rigorous scientific trials, it would be tempting to take it, or at least consider it. I can see why someone would consider things when desperate, or sees the side effects of some conventional treatments. And it stands to reason that there exist treatments unproven which work, otherwise medical research would have stopped long ago.
- vinceguidry 7y agoIt's not a bad thing to point out the failures of modern medicine or to choose to put your health in the hands of naturopaths. It is, indeed, effectively how the human race got along until modern medicine. The problem is in forcing your choices on others.
- lostmsu 7y agoForcing here is entirely via verbal induction of cognitive dissonance.
- vinceguidry 7y agoThen it's not really forcing. Cognitive dissonance != coercion.