An MD says nothing wrong with modern medicine.

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Dear Friends,

 

This is what arrived in my mail box today. I just had to reproduce it

here. What is this man talking about?

 

Regards,

Jagannath.

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Fri Sep 23, 2005 9:36 am

Ayurveda is also Allopathy. (??????? - question marks mine)

 

Dear Jagannath,

 

All I have seen from you so far, is vitriolic postings against

anything considered even mildly " modern medicine " . You have only

lambasted " allopathy " , and have refused to learn from more learned

people , who have told you that Ayurveda is also Allopathy, unlike

Homeopathy.

 

Even in this post, you have mentioned people dying from Anesthesia,

etc. Looks like you do not see anything beyond your own bias. In

fact, what you have started is neither Ayurveda, ( because you are

not trained in it), nor is it academic, other than paranoid postings

about all issues. I find your postings very amusing. You are indeed

talented in your language skills.

 

I do empathize with whatever you have gone through, but this is not a

forum for that. You like to control this " chat line " , which should be

renamed Jagchatonline.

 

I have not heard anything more paranoid than your statement, and I

quote--- " Most of them are afraid to speak out because they feel their

medical licences may be cancelled if they protest too much " . I am a

practicing physician in America and have never heard anything like

this. Physicians here are willing to try anything to help their

patients. But they have 2 problems---1) There is no research done

by modern standards, and we do practice evidence based medicine, and

2) the american population is extremely legally oriented and there is

no recourse, to fall back on, should somebody claim that x, y or z

happened due to some herb. Even the famous Dr Lad is not practicing

Ayurveda here anymore because of these problems.

 

I do agree with you on the unnecessarily very high cost of

medication, and that the Pharmaceutical companies are gouging the

public. I also agree that some of the research is sham, and a lot of

it is meaningless and mostly a " me too " research, where several

researchers are reproducing the same things ( but also proving that

it indeed is reproducible and not sham). You may say that you do

support some of the treatment modalities of modern medicine, but I

have not seen it yet in your postings. If and when you do, I shall

laud you for it.

 

______________ MD