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From: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Holistic vs. Conventional
Message-ID: <338@aoa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 13:03:21 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 31 13:03:21 1985
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Reply-To: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft)
Organization: Adaptive Optics Assoc., Cambridge, Mass. USA
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Summary: 

In article <2333@ukma.UUCP> wws@ukma.UUCP (Bill Stoll) writes:
>> >Holistic Medicine has the cures for your list.  
>> >Walt Stoll, MD, ABFP
>> 
>> 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). 
Enough already of your blatant self-advertising. 
Besides which, there's a hell of a lot more to being "holistic" in your
approach than giving yourself capital letters in your job title.> 
>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.
>
Then why the hell do you fail EVER on the net to recommend "conventional" 
treatment? 
And in any case, it's very close to false advertising and/or malpractice to
post "We Holistic Practioners have the cure..."
                              ----

As I've said before, I tend to trust recommendations of holistic medicine 
when I get them from a mainstream doctor than from a a self-proclaimed 
deprecator of mainstream medicine.

No smiley faces on this following suggestion: 

foreach name ( ls ALL_NET.MED_READERS)
  mail wws < `/usr/games/banner shut up walt ` )
end

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