Traditional Health Care Versus Alternative Health?
hey guys i have a assignment discussing the Advantages and disadvantages of traditional health care and alternative health care which one is better and why? Please Help me
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Traditional health care tends to treat the problem or symptom…not the cause. For example, if you are vomiting, you typically get prescribed something for the vomiting…not what is causing it. Maybe you are stressed and it is affecting your digestive system. The vomiting medication is treating the symptom…not the cause.
Traditional doctors are quick to prescribe a pill, but not so quick to provide lifestyle advice. Of course, that is also the fault of the patient. Westerners have come to expect a pill to cure everything. We almost feel cheated if we don’t walk out of the doctor’s office without at least one or two prescriptions.
Of course, when it comes to trauma or other types of major surgery, traditional medicine is the best.
Many alternative therapies take a more “whole person” approach. They look at different aspects of your life that affect your health and make changes at that level.
One plus for traditional health care is that interventions have been intensively studied and refined. Unfortunately, traditional physicians are given very little training in alternative therapies and what is worse, they can even be sanctioned for recommending alternative therapies.
A big negative is that traditional health care has become way too influenced by pharmacies. Another big negative is managed care. It breaks down health care into numbers. For instance, there are specific number of days you are supposed to be in the hospital for each ailment. Patient care has become very dehumanized.
The problem with discussing alternative therapies is that there are so many that fall under that general category. Some are very effective and some are sham. Therefore, you have to evaluate each one separately. Because research on these therapies is limited, you often have to go with your gut, so to speak.
Traditional health care is good at determining what the problem is and treating it. There may be side effects to the treatments that some do not like. Traditional health care seems to focus on the body part that is sore/not working.
Alternative health care is good at finding treatments for diagnosed conditions that have less side effects. Alternative health care tends to see the person as a whole and treatment involves the whole person. (A person with a job that involves moving around in a chair a lot can get sore knees under the right conditions. Getting a chair and mat that eases that is the correct treatment. Symptomatic treatment is ultrasound and bracing.)
The down side is that the treatment is much less effective. (Cholesterol treatments and prostate treatments are not as potent as the drug form for the same problem.)
Another down side is the wing nuts that are involved in it. I know people who are told that all is well when you have a BP of 200/120 and TIA symptoms. If you showed up at a traditional doctors office, you would be at the hospital so fast your head would spin. The wing nuts also tend to miss serious organic problems like cancer and treat the symptoms of the cancer rather than the cause.
personally i think both should work hand in hand…
however whereas traditional medicine is quick to operate, alternative medicine uses less invasive techniques to rid the body of toxins.
As a reiki practitioner I believe that all disease has an emotional base however traditional medicine does not take emotional state into account at all.