http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/homeopathy-selling-placebos-wrapped-in.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/homeopathy-selling-placebos-wrapped-in.html#comment-81824 Anonymous Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:27:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/homeopathy-selling-placebos-wrapped-in-ritual.html#comment-81824 Criminallopath, are you a medical practioner? Criminallopath, are you a medical practioner?

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/homeopathy-selling-placebos-wrapped-in.html#comment-71008 Criminallopath Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:27:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/homeopathy-selling-placebos-wrapped-in-ritual.html#comment-71008 Fixated with finding something objective? Yes. One of the hallmarks of scientific investigation. Slapping a fancy name on wholly subject complaints only goes to provide some degree of vindication to the whining patient and justification for their continued whining. Allopathic medicine has much to clean up in its own cupboard before whining about the snake oil of others. Fixated with finding something objective? Yes. One of the hallmarks of scientific investigation. Slapping a fancy name on wholly subject complaints only goes to provide some degree of vindication to the whining patient and justification for their continued whining. Allopathic medicine has much to clean up in its own cupboard before whining about the snake oil of others.

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/homeopathy-selling-placebos-wrapped-in.html#comment-71005 Gasman Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:11:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/homeopathy-selling-placebos-wrapped-in-ritual.html#comment-71005 Darrell. You excuse homeopathy by stating that allopathy has little to offer some people who experience symptoms for conditions that have unclear diagnosis and treatment. At least allopathy is honest in this regard. Though homeopathy is as woefully inadequate, they do relieve the patient of their money, even while not altering their condition. Darrell. You excuse homeopathy by stating that allopathy has little to offer some people who experience symptoms for conditions that have unclear diagnosis and treatment. At least allopathy is honest in this regard. Though homeopathy is as woefully inadequate, they do relieve the patient of their money, even while not altering their condition.

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/homeopathy-selling-placebos-wrapped-in.html#comment-70998 Darrell Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:39:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/homeopathy-selling-placebos-wrapped-in-ritual.html#comment-70998 You guys are sort of missing the point that many of these people do have problems that modern medicine is not addressing. Homeopathy isn't helping beyond placebo effect, but modern medicine isn't helping either. Criminallopath, you are so fixated with seeking something objective that you are attacking patients when you don't know the cause of their problems. I wouldn't want you to be my doctor. Neither would they. That's why some people turn to alternative medicine. You guys are sort of missing the point that many of these people do have problems that modern medicine is not addressing. Homeopathy isn’t helping beyond placebo effect, but modern medicine isn’t helping either. Criminallopath, you are so fixated with seeking something objective that you are attacking patients when you don’t know the cause of their problems. I wouldn’t want you to be my doctor. Neither would they. That’s why some people turn to alternative medicine.

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/homeopathy-selling-placebos-wrapped-in.html#comment-70965 Gasman Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:04:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/homeopathy-selling-placebos-wrapped-in-ritual.html#comment-70965 Most alternative medicine does not even require invoking placebo effect.<br/>Conditions for which alternative medicine claims efficacy tend to be ones with waxing and waning symptoms as part of the natural history of the disorder. When do people seek care? When conditions are worse. Since the next likely thing to happen in the patient's condition is gradual symptomatic improvement, the homeopath dully accepts credit where no credit is due. (Financially they do not accept credit, only cash will do.) Most alternative medicine does not even require invoking placebo effect.
Conditions for which alternative medicine claims efficacy tend to be ones with waxing and waning symptoms as part of the natural history of the disorder. When do people seek care? When conditions are worse. Since the next likely thing to happen in the patient’s condition is gradual symptomatic improvement, the homeopath dully accepts credit where no credit is due. (Financially they do not accept credit, only cash will do.)

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/homeopathy-selling-placebos-wrapped-in.html#comment-70964 Criminallopath Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:54:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/homeopathy-selling-placebos-wrapped-in-ritual.html#comment-70964 It is amazing how some would set the science based implementation of clinical medicine back to the non-science days of the five humors and using leeches for "bleeding treatment" in order to justify the subjective whining of our modern populace or to fatten their own pockets with "treatment" for such nonsense. It is amazing how some would set the science based implementation of clinical medicine back to the non-science days of the five humors and using leeches for “bleeding treatment” in order to justify the subjective whining of our modern populace or to fatten their own pockets with “treatment” for such nonsense.

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/homeopathy-selling-placebos-wrapped-in.html#comment-70963 Criminallopath Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:50:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/homeopathy-selling-placebos-wrapped-in-ritual.html#comment-70963 Actually "it hurts" is subjective. Try again when you can differentiate between the terms objective and subjective. Actually “it hurts” is subjective. Try again when you can differentiate between the terms objective and subjective.

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/homeopathy-selling-placebos-wrapped-in.html#comment-70962 Anonymous Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:16:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/homeopathy-selling-placebos-wrapped-in-ritual.html#comment-70962 Subjective doesn't mean it doesn't hurt. I guess that you're about as useful as homeopathy. Subjective doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt. I guess that you’re about as useful as homeopathy.

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/homeopathy-selling-placebos-wrapped-in.html#comment-70959 Criminallopath Fri, 26 Jan 2007 20:43:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/homeopathy-selling-placebos-wrapped-in-ritual.html#comment-70959 Making light of a garbage can diagnosis for which there exists 0 objective measures for its determination... Yes. The ACR should be ashamed of itself by its attempts to legitimize a purported "condition" whose existence is based purely on subjective indicators. Making light of a garbage can diagnosis for which there exists 0 objective measures for its determination… Yes. The ACR should be ashamed of itself by its attempts to legitimize a purported “condition” whose existence is based purely on subjective indicators.

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/homeopathy-selling-placebos-wrapped-in.html#comment-70958 Anonymous Fri, 26 Jan 2007 20:34:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/homeopathy-selling-placebos-wrapped-in-ritual.html#comment-70958 Making light of fibromyalgia? You're just the kind that drives them to alternative medicine in the first place! Making light of fibromyalgia? You’re just the kind that drives them to alternative medicine in the first place!

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