Nowadays, a growing number of people with health problems are trying alternative medicines and treatments instead of visiting the usual doctor. Do you think this is a positive or negative development?

Although
in recent days there is
cutting edge
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technology
in medical fields, some
people
prefer
alternative
treatments
rather than go to the traditional doctor without thinking of the consequence of
treatments
for cancer, pandemics or health system overburdened. In my opinion,
this
will be negative for society. The ease with which
people
have access to
alternative
medicine
is dangerous as there are no studies to give a clear result of the effectiveness of these, so that, when the population choose
this
type of treatment there is not
necessary
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an improvement in an illness.
Furthermore
, it can be said a balance between
technology
and normal doctor have improved life expectancy,
on the contrary
, the
successful
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rate of either acupuncture or homoeopathy
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there
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where
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is no proof of the real result.
For instance
, there are studies to show that
alternative
medicine
appeal more to the placebo effect if
people
try to
use
more
this
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medicine
, the world will have a more sick population. The main consequence of
this
is in the success rate of
treatments
will increase and in illnesses like cancer is necessary to
use
traditional
medicine
with a mixture of
technology
as
the
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science tests the products before to
use
in the population showing objective results.
In addition
,
although
alternative
treatments
usually do not
use
pharmaceutical chemicals,
this
is necessary to control pandemics and does not overburden like
recently
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show coronavirus times.
For example
,
Chile
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in Chile
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most of the
people
that died were who do not
got
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the vaccination and
people
who survived were vaccinated. In conclusion, for
people
is indispensable to go to the traditional doctor as is more reliable than
alternative
medicine
so that
medicine
and
technology
could show real figures of success.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • alternative medicines
  • treatments
  • positive development
  • negative development
  • health problems
  • usual doctor
  • access
  • personalized approach
  • holistic well-being
  • lack of regulation
  • evidence-based research
  • proper medical treatment
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