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.

As an introduction, currently, with the advancement of global development and urbanisation, the proportion of people with non-communicable diseases is steadily rising.

As a result

, many of them are seeking alternative methods of recovering other than consulting their family physician.

However

, I believe that

this

is a hazardous step regarding health, as

this

will lead to poor control and increase complications of the illnesses, which will ultimately result in reduced life expectancy. Most countries have well-organised healthcare systems in order to decrease mortality and morbidity of long-term illnesses.

Instead

, the people seek recovery through some other poor quality systems, which have no evidence in clinical practice.

Hence

,

this

will lead to increase mortality among patients

due to

poor

overall

disease management and increase complications.

For example

, one research in Sri Lanka found out that, the people who default to clinic follow-up for traditional medications presented with a higher number of myocardial infarctions.

On the other hand

, the family doctor knows the conditions of his patients far better than these low-quality healthcare providers. In

such

circumstances, doctors provide superior

overall

care with medications, which have good evidence through clinical trials.

In contrast

, a number of patients change to alternative medicines as they cannot overcome the rising prices of hospitals and drugs

as well as

some disbelief in Western pills.

However

, these problems can be avoided by proper awareness programs and increasing government expenditure on hospitals. In conclusion, in order to cure their long-standing health problems, many civilians try to change their mode of healthcare. Anyhow ,in my opinion, it is a negative development as

this

will result in higher mortality rates

due to

various hurdles.