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Old 02-04-2025, 10:06 AM
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Originally Posted by golfing eagles View Post
No, but I would not consider acupuncture, a 5,000-year-old treatment as "holistic". Perhaps I should better define the quacks as those who would rather "prescribe" herbs and vitamins to their patients as they unnecessarily die than to use proven pharmaceuticals because they are not "natural" or think they can cure cancer by "adjusting" the spine. The problem is, in my experience, that by the time the patient comes to see me it is too late.

I think I may be defining "holistic" a bit differently than you.
Not many "proven" drugs cure the problem. They treat symptoms. A DO concentrates on finding the root of the evil.
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