Nowadays, a growing number of people with health problems are trying alternative medicines and treatments instead of visiting their usual doctor. Do you think this is a positive or a negative development? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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day and age, more and more public avoid going to the hospital and taking medicines at home

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. In my opinion,

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has both advantages and disadvantages and I will outline it in the following paragraphs. On the one hand, most families decide to treat the sickness at home because it is more inexpensive and saves time than treatment in the hospital.

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, a patient with a cold can easily treat with a towel or a pill.

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to going to see a doctor, they have to make an appointment and pay a high cost for it. It helps save time filling in the papers, getting into a line and

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a low cost for treatment at home.

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, some people think the patient just got a cold. Unfortunately, that can lead to another dangerous sickness, and the only way to know it is to go to the hospital. There are many people that cannot survive through fever, especially children. In some cases, the body temperature reaches critical, which leads to a serious pathology

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as being paralyzed or even passing away.

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, getting a cough has the same symptoms as getting Covid-19.

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it is hard to recognize just by the symptoms and without professional experience. In conclusion, the drawback outweighs, there are more negative impacts on

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. Even though, one cannot risk a life just because it saves a little time and change the whole life., It

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affects other lives. Do not defy minor illnesses.