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?

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this

contemporary epoch,

instead

of visiting

doctor

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, many individuals who have health issues choose to use alternative medicines and

treatments

. Personally, I think

such

advancement does more harm than

benefits

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to

public

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the public

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. Without a shadow of a doubt, using alternative pills can help to reduce the expenditure of seeing a usual

doctor

. Some illness is not so serious thereby people can easily figure out how to cure themselves. To be more specific, if the person had experienced

this

disease

before and already knew how to take

treatments

,

then

there is no need for him to go to the hospital. With the fast development of the internet,

crowd

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can search

almost

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for almost

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all

the

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apply

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things on different websites.

Which

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This

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means medicines and

treatments

the

doctor

recommended

are

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is

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sometimes quite the same

of

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as

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what an individual searched on the internet based on the symptom he observed himself.

Nevertheless

, even with the same symptoms, the

disease

can be varied.

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,

to

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just

use

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using

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alternatives may lead to

side

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a side

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effect

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effects

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or even make the illness severer. If an individual who

infected

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is infected

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some

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with some

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kind of

disease

that has the same symptoms

to

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as

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flu

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the flu

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simply

regard

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regards

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it as a cold and did not go to see the

doctor

, he would miss the best time to receive the correct

treatments

. And

this

kind of

behavior

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behaviour

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may even lead to death sometimes. In conclusion, my firm conviction is that

although

people with health issues

to

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apply

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take alternatives by themselves can reduce the cost of seeing the

doctor

, it is sometimes dangerous for their body and people should go to see the

doctor

if they cannot one hundred

percent

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per cent

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sure about what

disease

he/she infected.