Alternative medicine might involve things like strong suggestion and
placebos, and actually work. Quack medicine involves cleaning out the
last assets of the victim and their family.
Fred
On Jun 28, 2005, at 9:23 AM, Habj wrote:
During the course in oncology, our teachers told us
that many of their
patients also sought for some alternative method of various kinds.
They were not at all against it - they said the alternative people
gave the patients something they badly needed, both for better
prognosis and for quality of life - often not a very long period of
time. That thing the alt.med. stuff can give in that situation, is
hope...