Current Events > Integrative Medicine is the new bullshit woo

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Nutrition, yoga, and meditation paired with conventional medicine is not bullshit woo. They arent bullshit woo on their own, either.

And that's precisely where "Integrative Medicine" gets away with its bullshit. Those aren't the only treatment modalities that fall under its scope. The fact that serious Integrative Medicine departments also promote homeopathy, Reiki, acupuncture, etc is proof that the field does not adhere to rigorous standards. As I showed in my post above, you can get a real IM "certification" for utter bullshit in just weeks, and it's expected to hold the same merit and authority as a legitimate academically trained expert in a field.

Adrenal fatigue and chronic Lyme are literally bullshit. The fact that they're taught alongside Yoga and meditation doesnt suddenly make them less so.

A cow pie lumped with an apple pie doesn't make the cow pie actual food. It just falsely legitimizes it as a pie.
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Look all you need is coffee enemas, iodine drops, and turpentine

you'll be fine!
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"they don't differentiate health and wellness"

That's right out of the Woo Textbook.

Right next to "traditional medicine treats the symptoms, not the cause"
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Theres nothing wrong with patients pursuing integrative medicine along with traditional medicine as long as its framed for them correctly. I tell my patients that the vast majority of integrative medicine practices have not been shown to offer statistically significant benefits, but some patients do think it makes them feel better (probably just the placebo effect imo) and save from chiropractic medicine, for the most part would not do harm; therein, if they want to pursue alternative medicine on the side thats fine by me but my first recommendation is always going to lie within evidence based medicine.

Where you run into trouble is when patients blindly follow some of these quacks who offer false promise and make grandiose statements to patients....one of my clinic patients (only in her early 40s) was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer and wanted to forgo chemotherapy to try alternative medicine by some fuck in Wisconsin; bunch of bullshit, acupuncture, Aqua therapy, high dose vitamin c, chiropractic, and treated her with an herbal remedy for Lyme disease (she didnt have Lyme disease). Guy convinced her it was a real alternative to chemo and preyed on her fears of the side effects of chemotherapy

I met with her several times as she continued to lose weight and waste away but she maintained that she felt like the alternative medicine was helping. I kept telling her it was not working, her scans were getting worse, to do chemo too if she wanted to give life a shot....she refused.

Died last week, had a big family too. Should be illegal imo
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Just out of curiosity, what medical degree are you going for?
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How the hell else am I gonna learn the Rasengan if I don't align my chakra
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I wouldn't trust diet advice from someone who is known for shitting the bed tbh
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We have another one for the ward.
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JACKBUTTMOMMY posted...

DarkRoast posted...

Just out of curiosity, what medical degree are you going for?

Not on Christmas.

You wanna hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I'm an easy target. Yeah, you're right, I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold-hearted cynic like you... but I don't like to hurt people's feelings. Well, you think what you want about me; I'm not changing. I like... I like me. My wife likes me. My customers like me. 'Cause I'm the real article. What you see is what you get.

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Merry Christmas buddy
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