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In China if you get in a car accident or just catch a bad case of the flu, you'll be taken to a hospital that practices...western medicine. There's a reason fo
by dreamcompiler 1y ago
In China if you get in a car accident or just catch a bad case of the flu, you'll be taken to a hospital that practices...western medicine.
There's a reason for that.
- FooBarWidget 1y agoIn China, they are capable of having a balanced understanding of which pradigm is suitable for which problems. For small, vague or chronic things like "stress" or "chronic stomach discomfort", they go to a TCM practitioner whereas western medicine doctors can't diagnose and treat that properly. This is combining the best of both worlds. The prevailing attitude on HN is not to combine strengths, but to dismiss TCM wholesale based on intellectual purity and geopolitical alignment. This is not only willful dismissal of the potentential to improve patient outcomes, but also shuts down curiocity and starting points for new actual scientific discovery.
- 0xDEAFBEAD 1y agoExactly. Western medicine is not particularly good at treating chronic conditions.