YOGA AND ASTHMA
In this video "Yoga and asthma" Esther shows a few exercises to relief the symptoms of asthma.
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International Yoga Therapy Conference -- Short Promo Video
This is a short two-1/2 minute promotional trailer for YOGA for HEALTH, the International Yoga Therapy Conference, which takes place May 18 -- 20th, 2007 in San Rafael, CA. Featuring information, interviews with yoga masters, teachers, and researchers, and a testimonial. The full 10-minute version of the video is also available to view on You Tube at www.youtube.com
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are times changing in med school?"even medical students" thats like the bottom the barrel in terms of authority.
1 what prevents "alternative therapies" from being used by "mainstream doctors" is that there is no data to show that they work. and thats how it should be, if you want to treat high blood pressure do you want to take something that has real data to back it up? or do you want the doctor to give you something that is only supported, data wise, by self reporting? (medical trials remove the problem of self reporting by comparing people who have taken the treatment with those who haven't, with self reporting its just a bunch of people saying "i got better while using this treatment" without any knowledge of how the treatment effected their recovery)
2 this is a survey in which the people were asked "if you think A is better than B" this isn't evidence ITS PUBLIC OPINION! the size of the earth isn't based on public opinion and neither is the efficacy of treatments, or the lack there of.edit--when one has truth on their side and is a threat to big moneyed interests, then it follows the pattern of first they ignore you, then they riducule you, then they fight you, then you win. We will win this,,mark my words one person at a time.
Things on yahoo answers are heavily referenced and read for years to come by many. I think the depth of the answer I gave here feels dangerous to some for its evangelical style and potential influence on other's thinking and hence is a threat to moneyed interests and when the opposing side comes at you whether in a masked nice way or an insult, you can be sure you touched a nerve.
When one tries to dissuade people from listening to the content of those words, that is when you can be sure you need to read them.
For the truth of medicine's smoke and mirrors said in an intelligent, passionate way that has the potential to ignite the fire in other people's bellies or if they feel will lose them money, then they will seek to silence that voice or distract you or make you feel too busy to pay attention or foolish if you protest or something of that nature, then that is when you better start paying attention to that person and what they say.
now as far as my original answer here is is
That would be nice;
however, one would need to see at what year in their training these people were as they may not yet have been through the indoctrination/training yet which often drastically changes their perspective.
Years ago in a sociology class, I remember reading about a study on medical students. At first they had high compassion for patients and altruistic motives but as they advanced in their training, they began to change.
They started to just care about things that the professor valued and focused on in order to get high grades in a very competitive field. They began to look at patients as a way to an end. If a patient had say diabetes and they already had one with diabetes, they would be angry as they came to see the patient not as a suffering person but a step to learning more or so their case was a waste in the student's mind. The study said although once they graduated, they sometimes got back a small bit of caring again for people, but it never reached any where near the amount of empathy they initially had and stayed there.
I know my sister in the medical field said after a while, you only are moved by the most tragic of cases and it all gets routine as if you don't you will find it hard facing all the misery. So you self harden or else it just starts to come naturally after a while as things get routine, so one would need to take into account as these students are trained and as they are courted by the drug industry, their views may change.
Also as they are being trained by older generations who tend to either know little about alternative health or actively downplay/dislike it, they may not get teaching in it as doctors do not seem to really know much about it other than to say don't do it.
They are really bound in no small part by only using what is approved by the AMA People have actually lost their medical licenses for prescribing an "unapproved" vit B shot as the doctor got it from Europe as it was cheaper. Perhaps if they did something that was not standard, they open themselves up to malpractice suits which the insurance companies covering them for malpractice would frown upon thus risking potentially losing the doctor not doing the traditional stuff the needed insurance he needs which is in the back of their minds as they work.
I think they are often not allowed to go outside what the AMA says is approved treatment so and so treatment.
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The fact remains that the two modalities can never really be complementary as Dr Richard Schulze who healed the incurables points out as the standard treatments work against alternative health making it more difficult to heal, Although complimentary medicine may be good for allopaths, allopathic treatments are not good for the effectiveness of natural treatments. Doing them simultaneously decreases the chance that alternative health will work as it is harming the person further faster than the natural ways can heal them.
He recommends from his case histories with real dying people to never go to a doctor and to either chose one or the other (allopath or alternative) as the two are not compatible. While doing the two modalities together as "complimentary" medicine seeks to, using the alternative things helps the doctor as patients wants/demands them, but it does not help the patient as in most cases. the drugs and other treatments cause more problems than they solve making it harder to heal oneself naturally. The patient may get better not because the two were combined but rather in spite of it.
While conceding that some aspects of medical science/treatment are good, they fall in a minority of cases. They excel at things like making artificial limbs and reconstructive surgery for injuries or if your leg is on one side of the road after an accident and you another, artificial eyes, etc then you want their expertise and knowhow and technology but for chronic illness, they are failing except in making profits off of the ill.
The two modalities are at their core incompatible. It is all for show..this "complimentary" push..smoke and mirrors, as they tend to use the wimpier part of alternative health like maybe guided imagery or recommend a poor form of herb such as conventional capsules that have little value and are nearly impotent in phytochemicals (one needs things like organic/wildcrafted herbs in tincture form and a good tincture such as one can get making homemade as manufacturer's often use poor quality, cheaper herbs, do not use enough herbs in their formulas and don't let the tincture mature long enough as it is cheaper) and doctors really do not know enough about herbs to know this.
Thus their allowed/recommended alternative treatments seems to not be that potent nor does it overshadowing the allopathic stuff as superior;less one realize that the alternative is enough. One does not really need the allopathic stuff to heal chronic disease. They cannot take the risk on usingMedical students opinions are interesting, I guess...but they are really no different from lay people, except they have been accepted into medical school. It would be interesting to see if their opinions change in a few years after they have actually learned something, and aren't as bright eyed and start struck. Also, this is an OPINION poll...not a measure of efficacy or safety.
Second...a response rate of 3% is terrible. Also surveys of this type have a selection bias in that only those who are already interested in sCAM will answer. It doesn't really matter that 74% of the 3% who answered think that an integrated medical system would be more effective....they don't know anything about the medical system at all. So like Joey on "Friends" used to say...their opinion is moo (its the opinion of a cow, who cares?)
I agree it is a good idea for medical students to learn about CAM...but to learn the truth...that CAM consists entirely of the implausible, unproven or dis-proven. If it works...it isn't CAM. When I teach medical students I spend time talking about sCAM, and getting them to think critically, to look at the evidence, and to question the assumptions of the sCAMsters.
So, I don't really think the times they are a changing that much. The more people are educated in science, the less likely they are to hold mystical beliefs.
There will always be a small percentage of MD's who go to the dark side. I work with physicians who believe in acupuncture, EFT and Healing Touch. I went to medical school with someone who was only interested in practicing acupuncture, but wanted an MD to get legitimacy. I don't get the sense that percentage is growing.....and 3% seems about what I have seen in real life.
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Janie...who do you think has time to read your answers? You could use an editor.Just because an opinion is popular, does not make it correct.
Popular opinion elected the Nazi party.First, does anyone actually bother to read through Janie's long and boring answers? Her answers takes up half the bloody page. I had to scroll down for 5 minutes until I reached the end. It's very repetitive. You really need to learn to condense.
Basically, most medical schools here in the UK encourage an evidence based method of teaching and learning...as they do in the US. This automatically excludes AltMed because there is little or no evidence of efficacy. That article does not necessarily mean what you think it means. It just means that some medical students (who you need to take into account are still medically lay people) have this opinion. It would be interesting to repeat the same survey when these medical students qualify. I doubt you will get the same figures.
One of the reasons CAM was introduced on the NHS in the UK was actually more of a comfort thing than acknowledgement that CAM has any real benefits. I think it's important we understand why people choose CAM in the first place.
Many people think that CAM means invariably effective and safe. This isn't really a logical way of thinking. Toxins are contained in herbal remedies for example. It is the dose that makes a substance toxic not the substance itself. It does not follow that "natural" equates to safer and more effective.
I mentioned comfort earlier. CAM is popular with some people because it offers them emotional support, empathy and time...consultations are generally longer that what you would get in general practice. Often people just want someone to sit there and listened to them with an empathetical ear and there is usually a spiritual component along with it too. Many people who have symptoms of illnesses actually have problems such an anxiety and CAM often helps relax people- just by talking to them.
My point is, this must not be confused with efficacy. Just because some medical student support CAM does not in any way prove efficacy and they don't necessarily want CAM as part of mainstream medicine for the reasons you think.
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