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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
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Posted: Sat Oct 26 13:08:36 1985
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Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences, Lexington KY
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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.


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