Chockstone Forum

      Sponsored By
      ROCK
   HARDWARE

Chockstone Photography

Australian Landscape Prints

Chockstone Forum - General Discussion

General Climbing Discussion

Topic Date User

OT - Bit of a curly one - bringing herbs into Oz 10-Mar-2011 At 3:06:52 PM Cesca

Message

This I know for certain. In the US (and possibly other countries too), natural doctors cannot get funding for clinical trials. However, medical doctors can. Gee, I wonder why....?

Natural doctors in the US can get clinical funding IF they train to become an MD - but most natural doctors aren't willing to do that because it would take many years of expensive study of techniques they aren't happy to apply in the first place.

So, natural doctors tend to end up using things like websites and patient testimonials to spread information about the work they do. This doesn't make that information unreliable; it simply shows a lack of funds for research. When you consider the vested interests and lack of high quality randomised evidence in some medical 'research', it would seem that relying on first-hand patient testimonials isn't a bad thing at all.

Big pharma does indeed have serious dollars to play with. As far as I am aware, its biggest spend goes on marketing. Yet a natural doctor can run a highly successful practice on almost word-of-mouth alone. Funny, that.