Hospital CAM programs

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There is usually a bit of black humor when an allopathic hospital

sets up a CAM program. What kind of program can they set up other

than one that attracts patients and does not conflict with the

money-making conventional protocols. So you'll have the massages,

the oils and essences, the subtile energies, the visualizations, the

acupuncture, nutritional recommendations, and occasionally common

supplements and herbs.

It does open the door to having conversations with your doc just to

enjoy watching him/her squirm. " Doctor, which of the alternative

programs that your hospital offers is right for me? " can be asked all

wide-eyed and innocently. Tell your doc that you are worried that

the alternative staff might be inadequately indoctrinated compared to

the conventional staff. If they balk at the use of " indoctrination "

don't let them get away with " training, " as dogs are trained and you

have so much more respect for doctors. There is so much work to

becoming a physician -- just like studying for the priesthood. Of

course these things need to be said without the least hint of irony

or derision.

Our first president, Washington, was killed by a series of

well-meaning physicians who each took a turn at bloodletting until he

was exsanguinated. This was the very best conventional care at the

time. In another fifty years our current cancer therapies will be

considered unbelievably crude and contemptible, unless of course the

industry still relies on them for profit and they will still be

heralded as proven and evidence-based.

Asymmetric mitosis of stem cells (quiescent + active) is now gaining

a bit of traction in the literature, but I have found research in

support of it going back 60 years. The problem is that too many

prestigious scientists and research institutions were erroneously

indoctrinated. At least they stopped the bloodletting. I started to

say they no longer use the mercurials, but these are used in vaccines

to this day.

Don't buy into the current denunciation of the relationship of

vaccinations and autism. Disparate populations that don't vaccinate

(such as Amish and primitive African villages) don't have a problem

with autism. That is the bottom line.