Comments on: Healing the Wounds of Alternative Medicine http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2008/07/healing-wounds-of-alternative-medicine.html Experiments and Thoughts on Quackery, Health Beliefs and Pseudoscience Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:47:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2008/07/healing-wounds-of-alternative-medicine.html#comment-6832 Anonymous Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:25:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2008/07/healing-the-wounds-of-alternative-medicine.html#comment-6832 MAXIDEX WARNING<br/><br/>I had eye surgery and in the post-op pack was MAXIDEX(dexamethasone) drops by ALCON LABS.<br/><br/>Two days later I was BLIND<br/><br/>Use Google and enter EPOCRATES MAXIDEX REACTION to verify MAXIDEX WARNING

I had eye surgery and in the post-op pack was MAXIDEX(dexamethasone) drops by ALCON LABS.

Two days later I was BLIND

Use Google and enter EPOCRATES MAXIDEX REACTION to verify

]]> By: dougiep http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2008/07/healing-wounds-of-alternative-medicine.html#comment-6503 dougiep Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:02:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2008/07/healing-the-wounds-of-alternative-medicine.html#comment-6503 Dear anonymous - please go back to your water divining, blood letting and witch ducking. Dear anonymous – please go back to your water divining, blood letting and witch ducking.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2008/07/healing-wounds-of-alternative-medicine.html#comment-6502 Anonymous Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:01:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2008/07/healing-the-wounds-of-alternative-medicine.html#comment-6502 Dear anonymous - please go back to your water divining, blood letting and witch ducking. Dear anonymous – please go back to your water divining, blood letting and witch ducking.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2008/07/healing-wounds-of-alternative-medicine.html#comment-6501 Anonymous Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:20:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2008/07/healing-the-wounds-of-alternative-medicine.html#comment-6501 I am sorry but why should you view this site as such my point was made from both aspects of medicine, yes I wrote the first message - I was born with a congenital heart defect - and for the first twenty years of my life was told - I was attention seeking and had no problems with my health other than the issue being psychosomatic and mental by my family GP. I had emergency surgery when I was 21 to save my life. My heart condition was so severe I could have died of it at any point during the previous twenty years. This was my issue with allopathic Drs. I then turned to alternative medicine. My point of view is that there are as many quacks in the alternative field as the standard field of medicine. Just because someone is a Dr does not mean that they are god - and a lot of Drs think they can walk on water. In the same breath that does not give alternative medicine practitioner the right to prey on people and many of them do. And the Dr I almost married is a medically trained dr who then took a course in osteopath who practices environmental medicine and is qualified in both fields. His CV is impressive but when you dig into it he is a fraud - most of the qualifications are bought as long as you turn up and pay your money you get them. There has to be more stringent measure to protect us - as a society we hate estate agents, banks etc but we trust Drs - we take what they say as fact - some of us dare not question them! You should question and if they work in the alternative field or not - ask anyone who is treating you about qualifications - ask about the validity of the qualification with the governing body and note that if they belong to a professional body - it may not mean anything at all. It may mean that they paid their fee and spent a day in a classroom and they are then qualified to put an endorsement after their name that makes them more genuine. When it comes to your health take some responsibility for yourself. And that is in both fields allopathic and alternative. The allopathic Drs are accused of being in the pockets of the pharmaceuticals - well I can tell you Goji juice has made my ex a huge amount of money and continues to. Dont be drawn in to the point that alternative practitioners are altruistic, they are looking at the bottom line too! And the fact that some allopathic Drs are endorsing the alternative medicine route may make them more appealing but they may be exploiting you too for their own financial gain its a multi milliom pound business and believe me some Drs see it as that a business. <br/> I am more than happy to discuss my personal experience further and give details of the hospital and Dr concerned my contact no is 07949275130. I am sorry but why should you view this site as such my point was made from both aspects of medicine, yes I wrote the first message – I was born with a congenital heart defect – and for the first twenty years of my life was told – I was attention seeking and had no problems with my health other than the issue being psychosomatic and mental by my family GP. I had emergency surgery when I was 21 to save my life. My heart condition was so severe I could have died of it at any point during the previous twenty years. This was my issue with allopathic Drs. I then turned to alternative medicine. My point of view is that there are as many quacks in the alternative field as the standard field of medicine. Just because someone is a Dr does not mean that they are god – and a lot of Drs think they can walk on water. In the same breath that does not give alternative medicine practitioner the right to prey on people and many of them do. And the Dr I almost married is a medically trained dr who then took a course in osteopath who practices environmental medicine and is qualified in both fields. His CV is impressive but when you dig into it he is a fraud – most of the qualifications are bought as long as you turn up and pay your money you get them. There has to be more stringent measure to protect us – as a society we hate estate agents, banks etc but we trust Drs – we take what they say as fact – some of us dare not question them! You should question and if they work in the alternative field or not – ask anyone who is treating you about qualifications – ask about the validity of the qualification with the governing body and note that if they belong to a professional body – it may not mean anything at all. It may mean that they paid their fee and spent a day in a classroom and they are then qualified to put an endorsement after their name that makes them more genuine. When it comes to your health take some responsibility for yourself. And that is in both fields allopathic and alternative. The allopathic Drs are accused of being in the pockets of the pharmaceuticals – well I can tell you Goji juice has made my ex a huge amount of money and continues to. Dont be drawn in to the point that alternative practitioners are altruistic, they are looking at the bottom line too! And the fact that some allopathic Drs are endorsing the alternative medicine route may make them more appealing but they may be exploiting you too for their own financial gain its a multi milliom pound business and believe me some Drs see it as that a business.
I am more than happy to discuss my personal experience further and give details of the hospital and Dr concerned my contact no is 07949275130.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2008/07/healing-wounds-of-alternative-medicine.html#comment-6500 Anonymous Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:14:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2008/07/healing-the-wounds-of-alternative-medicine.html#comment-6500 This must be the stupidest and most ignorant site on the internet.Of course there are quacks,but there are just as many in the NHS as in alternative medicine. This must be the stupidest and most ignorant site on the internet.Of course there are quacks,but there are just as many in the NHS as in alternative medicine.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2008/07/healing-wounds-of-alternative-medicine.html#comment-6499 Anonymous Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:51:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2008/07/healing-the-wounds-of-alternative-medicine.html#comment-6499 Oh well Alternative medicine is all bad then- nothing good about it. <br/>Chiopracters-All dangerous neck twisting bastards<br/>Herbalists- All poisoning bastards<br/>Acupuncturists- All sadistic bastards<br/>Reflexologists- Foot fetish bastards<br/>Homeopaths- Well just bastards<br/>Allopathic medicne always wonderful<br/>Drs, Pharmacists, Pharmaceutical industry all totally ethical at all times.<br/>Thank you all for this wisdom. Oh well Alternative medicine is all bad then- nothing good about it.
Chiopracters-All dangerous neck twisting bastards
Herbalists- All poisoning bastards
Acupuncturists- All sadistic bastards
Reflexologists- Foot fetish bastards
Homeopaths- Well just bastards
Allopathic medicne always wonderful
Drs, Pharmacists, Pharmaceutical industry all totally ethical at all times.
Thank you all for this wisdom.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2008/07/healing-wounds-of-alternative-medicine.html#comment-6498 Anonymous Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:19:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2008/07/healing-the-wounds-of-alternative-medicine.html#comment-6498 The issue is even more grave when you have conventional Drs supporting the alternative groups. From my own experience I was a great believer in alternative medicine until I dated a medically trained Dr who practiced it, one of his great interests was Goji juice in fact he endorsed it as a cure all for everything from the cold to cancer. He works in a private hospital not far from te M25 and in Wimpole Street, he has not been gainfully employed for seven out of the fourteen years he has been qualified but done many short courses of 1,2,3,4, day duration and presents himself as an expert in child health. The Goji is a sideline - he recruits people to sell it in what appears to me to be a pyramid scheme that is active all over the world. He is a real Dr charging huge amounts of money for the short courses he has taken that make him in to an expert in both fields although if you look closely at his qualifications they do not add up to much. But who does - you go to a hospital and expect to find qualified people, who have been checked out by the hospital. I think its great that GPs will have to regegister every five years and better if patients have a say about their conduct and if they are happy with their services. Anyone who can be preceived as giving advice on your health should be open to this scrutiny and it should be tightend up in all areas. The issue is even more grave when you have conventional Drs supporting the alternative groups. From my own experience I was a great believer in alternative medicine until I dated a medically trained Dr who practiced it, one of his great interests was Goji juice in fact he endorsed it as a cure all for everything from the cold to cancer. He works in a private hospital not far from te M25 and in Wimpole Street, he has not been gainfully employed for seven out of the fourteen years he has been qualified but done many short courses of 1,2,3,4, day duration and presents himself as an expert in child health. The Goji is a sideline – he recruits people to sell it in what appears to me to be a pyramid scheme that is active all over the world. He is a real Dr charging huge amounts of money for the short courses he has taken that make him in to an expert in both fields although if you look closely at his qualifications they do not add up to much. But who does – you go to a hospital and expect to find qualified people, who have been checked out by the hospital. I think its great that GPs will have to regegister every five years and better if patients have a say about their conduct and if they are happy with their services. Anyone who can be preceived as giving advice on your health should be open to this scrutiny and it should be tightend up in all areas.

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