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- From: mdebuitlear@vms.eurokom.ie
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Questions about Reynaud's Syndrome
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.102647.12172@vms.eurokom.ie>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 19:14:21 GMT
- References: <dcox-101292102806@dcoxmac.nswc.navy.mil> <17873@pitt.UUCP>
- Organization: EuroKom Conferencing Service
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- In article <17873@pitt.UUCP>, geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
- >
- > Before prescribing Ginger, scientific medicine would have to see
- > some experiments showing that it works. It is not enough for you
- > to say "hey, it seems to help me, so all doctors from now on should
- > be telling their patients to take ginger." That doesn't sound very
- > reasonable, now does it?
- >
- > --
- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Gordon Banks N3JXP | "I have given you an argument; I am not obliged
- > geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | to supply you with an understanding." -S.Johnson
- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- If it obviously doesn't do any harm, it doesn't sound unreasonable to me.
-
- What does sound unreasonable is that there are many, many like examples
- around and a lot of people are suffering unnecessarily because scientific
- medicine hasn't 'got around' to proving that they work.
-
- In my book, if it _clearly_ doesn't do any harm and may well do some good,
- the patient should be told about it. They can decide themselves whether to
- take it or not.
-
- Micheal.
-
- M.De.Buitlear@EuroKom.ie
-