Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/3/85; site ukma.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ukma!wws From: wws@ukma.UUCP (Bill Stoll) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Holistic vs. Conventional Message-ID: <2333@ukma.UUCP> Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 13:08:36 EST Article-I.D.: ukma.2333 Posted: Sat Oct 26 13:08:36 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 29-Oct-85 04:20:15 EST References: <315@drutx.UUCP> Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences, Lexington KY Lines: 46 Summary: Open letter to Sue Brezden: Holistic Medicine DOES have the solutions. We do it every day. It isn't even a challenge anymore! In article <315@drutx.UUCP>, slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden) writes: > >> How about starting with curing > >> migraine headache tendencies, > >> unexplained fatigue, > >> oversensitivity to climatic changes or temperature extremes, > >> hayfever, > >> poor hand-eye coordination or unsteady hands, > >> need for excessive sleep (over 5 hours per 24), > >> ....? > >> > >> Frank Silbermann > > >Holistic Medicine has the cures for your list. > >Walt Stoll, MD, ABFP > > What a statement! Most of those items are NOT diseases--they are > simply symptoms. Those symptoms may come from almost any cause (especially > if you include the "unexplained fatigue") from a nagging spouse to > cancer. And yet Dr. Stoll has the gall to say that he has the cures, > without any further clue as to what is causing the symptoms. > Sue vastly underestimates the training and experience of the typical Holistic Medical practitioner. Only a completely untrained and inexperienced professional would think of treating symptoms without looking for causes (although at times it seems to Holistic Medical Physicians that that is precisely what the Conventional Medical norm is). > Personally, I prefer a doctor who sometimes admits he doesn't know > the cure--and spends a bit more time trying to get the facts. Holistic Medicine doesn't have ALL the cures--just so many more than Conventional Medicine alone (remember, Holistic Medicine contains within it ALL of Conventional Medicine) that there truely is no meaningful comparison any more. -- cbosgd!ukma!wws(Walt Stoll) YOU Walt Stoll, MD, ABFP Founder & Medical Director ARE MORE Holistic Medical Centre 1412 North Broadway Lexington, Kentucky 40505 THAN YOU THINK (606) 233-4273