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- From: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Non-physician bashing
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.000114.3025@cnsvax.uwec.edu>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 00:01:14 -0600
- Organization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
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- [reply to habersch@husc10.harvard.edu]
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- >I suggest that the large majority of these good, upstanding citizens
- >who stay away from quacks do so for the wrong reason. They do it
- >because it is the establishment thing; if a quack system was the
- >establishment thing, they would do that instead.
-
- No, I think the opposite is true. Patients of mine who don't see
- alt.practitioners tend not to for reasons other than because they worry
- about what the neighbors will think. Around here, most of their
- neighbors are likely to recommend a chiropracter first for certain
- problems. These patients are looking for the treatment most likely to
- succeed and aren't taken in by the claims of quacks. Those that go to
- alt.practitioners (other than chiropracters) on the other hand often go
- because it is novel and trendy. They also seem to be more superstitious
- than mainstream patients, believing in things like luck, fate, and
- common superstitions. These are the same people who would go to a
- fortune teller.
-
- David Nye
- nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu
-