my opinions versus doctors' opinions

Ok, When I talked about American Cancer Society, I said a thing wrong. I admitted it after stonypoint pointed it out. But I am no saint. Mistakes and errors should be understandable. Readers need to know even doctors make mistakes.

Although as a human being, I can't avoid mistakes and I could not be correct on all occasions or on all issues like many others, I believe not all my opinions are worthless. I believe those who could appreciate would find that some of my opinions are helpful.

On the other hand, not all opinions of doctors are always correct. That is why patients need second opinions!

My point is always the same: doctors know what they know. They don't know what they don't know. However, some doctors pretend to know what they actually don't know. For instance, doctors do not receive much education on alternative medicine and nutrition from med school, according to drday.com, but some sound like they know for sure that they are experts on nutrition and alternative treatments.

Worse part is, those doctors do not know what others know, but they bet that what others know are not true. They are not to be blamed because to them, Western medicine is the only thing they know when it comes to medicine. Anything contradictory to Western medicine is not evidence or science-based.

Readers and doctors alike need to know a fact. In an sense, bad or incompetent doctors can be more dangerous than foodconsumer here because patients tend to believe them, not me. Many readers here know I am not a doctor, fewer would believe what I said. So what I said does not count. However, an inadequate word from a bad or incompetent doctor could kill a patient, literally.

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• 谢谢分享！ -Dr.He- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/06/2008 postreply 22:14:40

• Dr. He, you are a good doctor. -foodconsumer- ♂ (144 bytes) () 07/06/2008 postreply 22:22:52

• You are welcome! -Dr.He- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/06/2008 postreply 22:52:53

• A board certified doctor? 回复：Dr. He, you are a good doctor. -Stonypoint- ♂ (62 bytes) () 07/07/2008 postreply 06:10:36

• 当然不是啦 -work&family- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/07/2008 postreply 07:18:20

• but who is licensed to practice medicine over the internet -foodconsumer- ♂ (224 bytes) () 07/07/2008 postreply 09:52:23

• The difference? baseless vs. evidence-based. 回复：my opinions vers -stonypoint- ♂ (337 bytes) () 07/07/2008 postreply 06:08:45

• i agree with u...evidence based so people can learn and build up -lovecorn- ♂ (346 bytes) () 07/07/2008 postreply 07:15:17

• 回复：i agree with u...evidence based so people can learn and build -foodconsumer- ♂ (55 bytes) () 07/07/2008 postreply 09:34:22

• your wording is not logic -foodconsumer- ♂ (200 bytes) () 07/07/2008 postreply 09:28:57

• science does exist for nothing, it's for business -foodconsumer- ♂ (64 bytes) () 07/07/2008 postreply 09:31:29

• 回复：The difference? baseless vs. evidence-based. 回复：my opinions v -foodconsumer- ♂ (147 bytes) () 07/07/2008 postreply 09:36:53