Children deliberately given virus, page 2

Originally posted by bsl4doc

What about tetanus? And smallpox?

It's a little ignorant to say that doctor's are "clueless" just because they run a battery of tests. Believe it or not, medicine is a science, and science's always change. No doctor can honesdtly tell you they know every single thing about the human body, and if one tells you that, run. We have to run tests because we can't just eyeball a person and say "Oh, yes, clearly you have an clostridium infection and are slowly becoming septic based on your creatinine levels." That's what tests are for. Blood gas, WBC, etc. . Also, as far as "seeking alternative care", where do you draw the line? At what point do you realize that alternative methods won't help heal, for instance, MRSA infections or certain viral infections? Just curious.

Mariella

I was merely expressing my opinion, gained from my experience with the medical profession, and I did say that alternative remedies are not always the best option. However, I do believe that alternative remedies can help with almost any ailment that does not require surgery. My father is a herbalist and you will be amazed at how many of his patients have come to him as "a last resort" because the doctors have been poking, prodding and testing them for years without being able to resolve their problem. Also, doctors tend to treat the symptom and not the cause (I'm speaking generally about your local GP and not specialists) whereas a good herbalist or natural medicine practitioner should look at the person as a whole, including their state of mind, before treating the person.
I do not want to come across as a "doctor hater" or anything so severe. I have had the unfortunate experience of medical doctors making a complete mess of someone I love and then just sitting back and saying "Oh well, we tried". This is not good enough. And don't even try to get a doctor to testify to the absolute cock-up that another doctor has made because you won't find one - they all stick up for each other and the poor patients must just grin and bear it! The doctors here (at the "best" orthopaedic hospital) messed my husband up so badly that he very nearly died. They had to give him 8 pints of blood as a previous doctor had not bothered to stop the bleeding from one of his wounds before transporting him to another hospital which meant that, when the ambulance arrived after a 2 hour journey at about 20 km/h (he had a broken back as well) and they took the gurney out of the back of the ambulance, the blood flowed like a waterfall off the gurney onto the ground. They then left him lying in the passage on a gurney for almost 3 hours before he was taken into theatre. He was in theatre for 6 hours during which time they had to knock a pin into his femur to fix the 2 breaks only to break it again as the pin they used was too big for his femur and ended up splitting the bone lengthways. They then put a pin in his humerus and used bolts that were too long and which eventually wore a groove into his shoulder socket. They also did not diagnose a broken ankle so it was never fixed properly and they neglected to tell us that his arm would be paralysed. They had to put a plate into his right wrist and, in the process, ended up breaking the tap off in the bone. Now, five years later, they have amputated his leg. Shall I go on?