complementary and alternative medicine?

Maurice Breuning: Hi there. I'm a medical resident in a big hospital in a major city in an Asian country. My day officially starts at 8 am but I'm at work by 7 am just to catch up on yesterday's backlog. I barely have time to finish my workload and I often have to skip meals and go home late. My work is important to me and it's serious business because it's life and death for my patients. I do not have the time to waste on unproven, discredited, therapies like alt med quackeries. I care too much for my patients and career. If people want fake medicine, go to an alt med practitioner. If they want science and evidence based medicine, go to a doctor. So to answer your question, NO DOCTOR SHOULD BE TRAINED IN ALT MED unless he or she wants to. IT'S A WASTE OF TIME AND EFFORT....Show more

Robbie Starchman: No. Doctors should be trained in science-based medicine, not "sCAM."

Foster Padgette: Doctors trained in both conventional medicine and alternative medicine wo! uld make ideal doctors as both have pluses and minuses.It would be difficult to make it mandatory but training in both should definitely be encouraged. Unfortunately this would make the lengthy medical training even longer so making it compulsory would not be a good option as it would probably turn many would be doctors away from the profession.Alternative medicine is mostly free of side effects but often it is far less effective than conventional medicine but conventional medicine often has bad side effects....Show more

Monica Voltin: There are so many healing modallities; do you really expect one person to know them all? It is up to you to find the correct healing path for yourself, and no one practitioner can be trained in all healing modalities.

Lon Pennington: no, because the methodology behind real medicine and that behind "alternative" medicine completely contradict one another. in real medicine treatments must demonstrably work, and they must work bette! r than any placebo effect. in "alternative medicine" treatment! s that are used based on word of mouth, anecdotal experiences, fallacious appeals to nature, etc. in science we turn a blind eye to such statements and actually look at the testable evidence rather than claims supported purely by emotional appeals....Show more

Enriqueta Steffen: Julia, Absolutely! the terms are used interchangeable. Its no big revenues associate w/complimentary medicine. Have U ever heard of a gentlemen by the name - jerry icky. He is in the NY area, he's pretty good to rely on when it comes 2 this subject matter:Complimentary Med....

Carlton Lastrapes: only enough to recognize the limitations of what they can do. the main problem is that conventional medicine equates license to treat most anything as competence to do so, when that is far from reality.

Antonia Mogg: No, because it's a sham wrapped in a joke covered in fail.