Schulmedizin - Alternativmedizin: eines oder beides? Eine persönliche Stellungnahme

Journal/Book: Schweiz Rundschau Med (Praxis). 1989; 78: 891-896.

Abstract: The demand for an alternative medical care is in fashion nowadays. The blessings of a science- and technology-oriented medicine are an suspicion.This essay deals with the current credo of scholastic medicine, the definition of alternative health care and with the methods of phytotherapy homeopathy and accupuncture. The opinion is promoted that there is but one integral medicine. The different methods have to be subjected to cost-benefit analysis because society cannot afford to waste financial ressources to inefective diagnostic and therapeutic measures: however, traditional medical science should accept the challenge to accept interesting alternative methods. Health care is poorly provided if only mercantile criteria are accepted as .some healthinsurers propose.

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