Ronald Said:

Antibiotics and ear infections?

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I have always waited to see if it would improve on it's own before using antibiotics with my children. I've found that *most* ear infections tend to improve without them although dr's (even those who tout not using antibiotics for viral infections) still tend to hand them out like candy for it.

If it doesn't start to improve in 3 days or so, a child starts running a fever or you can't control it with tylenol/advil, or the condition gets worse...then it's usually time to get them checked out and see about antibiotics.

Victoria Said:

Seeking a good Alternative Medicine M.D. or D.O. in NYC?

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I am an alternative medicine consultant and have several success stories for you, but that is really too much info for here. I am not in NYC, but can most likely help you over the phone or hook you up with a colleague of mine there, I would have to do a little research to find who I would think would be best for you. I would also do the consultation(s) at no charge. Email here through yahoo answers and we'll get together soon.

Nathan Said:

Paranormally speaking: What advice would you give these doctors?

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Well, the "possible" paranormal causes are so numerous that they are not worth listing, but there are a few approaches that I think may be valuable.

First, a complete energetic evaluation of individuals who are at risk may turn up some similarity that could lead toward a physical or spiritual ailment.

Second, an energetic evaluation of the area (since this specific report is of a localized phenomenon) may reveal an anomaly in the energy flows in the area. An environmental evaluation along with a personal evaluation may help a healer to recognize some patterns that might be contributing to an ongoing inbalance.

Third, an evaluation of the foods eaten by this specific ethnic group in this area might be revealing. Poisons come in all forms, even those that affect the spiritual self.

Related to your question about how to advise the doctors, without a detailed evaluation of the people and environment, it's difficult to make any recommendation, but I'll take a quick shot in the dark since you asked. I would recommend that the doctors monitor the nervous systems of this class of individuals and look for electronic anomalies. It might seem obvious to search for interuptions around the heart, but any electronic interuptions could contribute to the heart stopping. I would also recommend that they hire some psychologists to talk to this class of people to discuss: 1) are they experiencing any unusual things (like electronic devices acting strangely, visions, or odd coincidences), 2) are these people experiencing PTSD or some other common stressful condition that might lead to health problems.

As a recommendation for preventative treatment, meditation would be valuable (as it is never hurtful), some sort of chi building activity (like Tai Chi or Yoga), and a diet low in iron :^) Of course, all of this is just a series of guesses since I have absolutely no familiarity with this phenomenon or the people involved. It's just good common sense diagnostic technique for those who work with energies.

BTW, I have never heard of any energetic healing practitioner who would object to any MD or researcher who is trying to determine a way to help heal people. Nearly every energetic healer that I have met considers their work as a compliment to the work of an MD, and would never consider energetic work as a substitute for seeing an MD. This includes both people who get paid to complete energetic work and those that do not, those who seek publicity and those who are very private, those who speak to other people about their skills and those who would almost never tell a soul about what they are doing. In other words, for almost all healers that I have met in the profession, the motivation is not recognition, fame, or fortune, though it's not always clear why the fight back the tide to do what they do. Thanks for the questions B.

Edgar Said:

are times changing in med school?

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edit--when one has truth on their side and is a threat to big moneyed interests, then it follows the pattern of first they ignore you, then they riducule you, then they fight you, then you win. We will win this,,mark my words one person at a time.

Things on yahoo answers are heavily referenced and read for years to come by many. I think the depth of the answer I gave here feels dangerous to some for its evangelical style and potential influence on other's thinking and hence is a threat to moneyed interests and when the opposing side comes at you whether in a masked nice way or an insult, you can be sure you touched a nerve.

When one tries to dissuade people from listening to the content of those words, that is when you can be sure you need to read them.

For the truth of medicine's smoke and mirrors said in an intelligent, passionate way that has the potential to ignite the fire in other people's bellies or if they feel will lose them money, then they will seek to silence that voice or distract you or make you feel too busy to pay attention or foolish if you protest or something of that nature, then that is when you better start paying attention to that person and what they say.
now as far as my original answer here is is

That would be nice;

however, one would need to see at what year in their training these people were as they may not yet have been through the indoctrination/training yet which often drastically changes their perspective.

Years ago in a sociology class, I remember reading about a study on medical students. At first they had high compassion for patients and altruistic motives but as they advanced in their training, they began to change.

They started to just care about things that the professor valued and focused on in order to get high grades in a very competitive field. They began to look at patients as a way to an end. If a patient had say diabetes and they already had one with diabetes, they would be angry as they came to see the patient not as a suffering person but a step to learning more or so their case was a waste in the student's mind. The study said although once they graduated, they sometimes got back a small bit of caring again for people, but it never reached any where near the amount of empathy they initially had and stayed there.

I know my sister in the medical field said after a while, you only are moved by the most tragic of cases and it all gets routine as if you don't you will find it hard facing all the misery. So you self harden or else it just starts to come naturally after a while as things get routine, so one would need to take into account as these students are trained and as they are courted by the drug industry, their views may change.

Also as they are being trained by older generations who tend to either know little about alternative health or actively downplay/dislike it, they may not get teaching in it as doctors do not seem to really know much about it other than to say don't do it.

They are really bound in no small part by only using what is approved by the AMA People have actually lost their medical licenses for prescribing an "unapproved" vit B shot as the doctor got it from Europe as it was cheaper. Perhaps if they did something that was not standard, they open themselves up to malpractice suits which the insurance companies covering them for malpractice would frown upon thus risking potentially losing the doctor not doing the traditional stuff the needed insurance he needs which is in the back of their minds as they work.

I think they are often not allowed to go outside what the AMA says is approved treatment so and so treatment.
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The fact remains that the two modalities can never really be complementary as Dr Richard Schulze who healed the incurables points out as the standard treatments work against alternative health making it more difficult to heal, Although complimentary medicine may be good for allopaths, allopathic treatments are not good for the effectiveness of natural treatments. Doing them simultaneously decreases the chance that alternative health will work as it is harming the person further faster than the natural ways can heal them.

He recommends from his case histories with real dying people to never go to a doctor and to either chose one or the other (allopath or alternative) as the two are not compatible. While doing the two modalities together as "complimentary" medicine seeks to, using the alternative things helps the doctor as patients wants/demands them, but it does not help the patient as in most cases. the drugs and other treatments cause more problems than they solve making it harder to heal oneself naturally. The patient may get better not because the two were combined but rather in spite of it.

While conceding that some aspects of medical science/treatment are good, they fall in a minority of cases. They excel at things like making artificial limbs and reconstructive surgery for injuries or if your leg is on one side of the road after an accident and you another, artificial eyes, etc then you want their expertise and knowhow and technology but for chronic illness, they are failing except in making profits off of the ill.

The two modalities are at their core incompatible. It is all for show..this "complimentary" push..smoke and mirrors, as they tend to use the wimpier part of alternative health like maybe guided imagery or recommend a poor form of herb such as conventional capsules that have little value and are nearly impotent in phytochemicals (one needs things like organic/wildcrafted herbs in tincture form and a good tincture such as one can get making homemade as manufacturer's often use poor quality, cheaper herbs, do not use enough herbs in their formulas and don't let the tincture mature long enough as it is cheaper) and doctors really do not know enough about herbs to know this.

Thus their allowed/recommended alternative treatments seems to not be that potent nor does it overshadowing the allopathic stuff as superior;less one realize that the alternative is enough. One does not really need the allopathic stuff to heal chronic disease. They cannot take the risk on using