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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 01:15 PM
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What do you think is the most dangerous "alternative" medical practice?
I was talking this over with a doc friend this morning. We agreed it was breast thermography right now, mostly because it's so widely touted as a substitute for mammography (which it's not, scroll down) and because of the seriousness of false negatives.
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 01:18 PM
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1. How about high colonics?
That just looks like trouble to me.
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 01:19 PM
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2. crazy uncle ernie
;-) {think : Tommy... keep ernie away from the kids lest he wants to play doctor)

Sorry for the nonsequitor.

Have never heard of thermography.
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 01:23 PM
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3. Hell, ALL of them.
Edited on Sun Dec-04-05 01:23 PM by asthmaticeog
Poor dumb fucks dicking around with crystals and magnets while perfectly treatable illnesses eat away at them. Fucking charlatans who promulgate that nonsense ought to be tried for murder.
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Evergreen Emerald Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 01:25 PM
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4. blood letting
sounds pretty dangerous.
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 01:25 PM
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5. Scientology. (nt)
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 03:34 PM
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6. The ones that isolate the "patient" from conventional treatment.
integrating or combining is fine, some alternatives may actually be effective, others may provide a placebo effect - nothing wrong with that in my book. IMO most folks using them really want the caring attention not provided by conventional medicine. Good nursing or better "bedside" manner would go a long way to putting some of the real charlatans out of business.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 03:39 PM
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7. Anything that keeps people
from going to the damn doctor when they're sick.

Complimentary medicine, yes, replacing medicine, no.
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Horus45 Donating Member (317 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 03:40 PM
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8. Intravenous Hydrogen Peroxide
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