Nowadays, an increasing number of people with health problems are using alternative medicines and treatments instead of visiting their normal doctor. Do you think this is a positive or negative development?

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trend of people seeking
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alternate
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treatments and medications rather than visiting their regular doctors. I believe
this
is a negative development.
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my opinion. On
one
hand, people seek
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of treatments and medicines because of the cost and time consumed in seeing their physician.
For instance
, a patient walked into a hospital, he or she will
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through
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a lot
of
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like payment at the cashier,getting their cards or folders,checking
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vital signs and queuing, just to see the medical personnel,
this
is after spending money on transportation where there could be traffic jam sometimes, which is very common among the public hospitals,
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it comes with an extra charge.
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can be discouraging for
one
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the health facility.
On the other hand
,
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source
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of treatment and medicine can cause more
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than the initial
one
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severe pain at the right iliac fossa which is an indication
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appendicitis, due to illiteracy or lack of finance,
one
may opt for
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treatment which may involve buying of pain killers to subside the pain, it
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effective but on the long run, it can cause rupture of the appendix due to the delay in getting the appropriate intervention and it's a serious surgical emergency case in the hospital,
this
could have been avoided if he visited the healthcare facility from the onset. In conclusion, the negative effects of alternative treatment
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outrageous and in
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cases,
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can cause death.
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, I think the health
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with the support of the government should help educate the masses about the dangers and
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of visiting their physician regularly.
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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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