Are doctors lying

[Guest guest]

Having read the "Editorializing" once more, one should discern the difference

between the Astrologer and his assistant, the Ayurvedic Vaidya and his

assistant, and any doctor and his assistant.

The problem is not of "listening to truth", but of people trying to emphasize

only "what they perceive " as truth, regardless of the actual truth. There is no

problem with truth. But if you say that all the assistants know better than the

people who studied these sciences, then there is something wrong with that

argument. Perhaps, one has an argument with everything that is going on in this

world, and sees only through paranoid eyes. While ranting and raving about the

string theory, which has no relevance to this argument, let us not destroy the

very basis of this column, which is trying to learn from each other what is best

in a given disease. Give the various options and let the consumer decide what is

best.

 

Ranting and raving about one's bias does no good to this column and will turn

people away from this column. One should not try to perpetrate one's own bias on

everyone, especially when one is not even trained in Ayurveda, and is just

trying to be a self --appointed guardian of one's own bias that is being

imposed on everyone.

Durgesh Mankikar,MD

 

ayurveda wrote:

Message: 10

Sun, 21 Aug 2005 08:03:54 -0700 (PDT)

Jagannath Chatterjee

Are the doctors lying?

Knowing something to be not entirely true and not expressing it to others,

trying to hide it, is also a form of lying. The ayurvedic understanding of

disease and it's cure is vastly different from that of an allopath. Many

ayurveds were thought to be stubborn and clinging when they stuck to their guns

and practised what they thought was right. This was not any shortsightedness on

their part but through keen observation they had found the ayurvedic principles

to be true, so also for the homeopaths and others who deal with the energy

principle inherent in the body. They therefore resisted the onslaught of modern

medicine.