Gaps in medicine signal a call to fill those gaps with ethical, equitable, and competent science and patient care. Gaps in medicine doesn’t justify filling those gaps with exploitation and pseudoscience under the guise of wellness and functional/alternative/integrative medicine.
Gaps in medicine signal a call to fill those gaps with ethical, equitable, and competent science and patient care. Gaps in medicine doesn’t justify filling those gaps with exploitation and pseudoscience under the guise of wellness and functional/alternative/integrative medicine.
@jonathanstea Sometimes, there are no solutions for chronic conditions or for aging. All that can be done is management. For example, degenerative joint /bone diseases. Pain management is the best anyone can do. If a "natuopath" tells you a tincture will cure you, they are lying, conning you!
@jonathanstea Coming from the professional who mocks people’s misunderstandings born from the frustration from those gaps. Desperate people who the system has failed will seek out answers that give them something to grasp onto. But go ahead and mock away 🤷♂️
@jonathanstea A big reason why people seek help outside mainstream medicine is because mainstream providers often don't provide explanations (for lack of time). But more could be done. For example, for the treatment of hypothyroidism, it might not matter whether the pt has antibodies 1/2
@jonathanstea There’s some complexity here. There’s a case to make for med schools to have Departments of Psychosomatic Medicine bc there r measurable clinical effects (both good and bad) that we observe under this rubric. The amount of work we have to do in double-blind clinical trials … 1/
@jonathanstea You’re not gods nor Infallible.. Some of us have almost been killed by an adverse reaction to a medication Saviour complex is huge in you.
@jonathanstea The reason people go alternative is because you have no answers and drug the patient every time, and they come back feeling worse. Mainstream medicine doesn’t know/ want to treat chronic disease.
@jonathanstea The official model has failed because the trust factor has eroded due to the failure of practicing clinicians not informing patients of real risks involved in treatment options. Even pharmacists are shocked that doctors often prescribe contravening medications.
@jonathanstea Says he that follows the most unnatural unscientific science ever perpetrated upon mankind.