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 relavant examples from your own knowledge or experience. Write at least 250 words.

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These days, more and more
people
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who have medical problems prefer alternative medicines and treatments to go to the hospital and meet
doctors
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. In my opinion,
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problem is a negative development for
people
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who have
health
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problems. There are some reasons why
people
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have to go to the hospital rather than using
another medical treatments
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another medical treatment
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.
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the
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your
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health
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could be worse if you do not go to the hospital. When we
visit
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hospital
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the hospital
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,
doctor
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the doctor
a doctor
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can tell
you
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us
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about
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apply
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the accurate reasons why
you
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we
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are sick. But if you do not
visit
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there, you can not find where your
health
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problem
is begin
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begins
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exactly and you can earn much illness in the future.
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, think about the situation
that
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in that
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you have a sickness on your gum, and you just go to the pharmacy and never
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the dentist. Your illness could begin with your teeth, but if you do not
visit
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dental
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the dental
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office, you could not find the exact reason
of
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for
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your sickness.
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to
this
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, if the
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people
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number of people
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who
visit
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the
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apply
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hospitals
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and find
doctors
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are
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decreased, the number of
hospitals
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and
doctors
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in that country would be
also
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dropped, and
this
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would be connected to the less opportunity to get
a
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apply
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treatment
by
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from
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doctors
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.
For instance
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, the
less
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fewer
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people
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visit
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the
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apply
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dentistry
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dentist
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, the more dental office will
started
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start
be started
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to be closed, and the
less
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fewer
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people
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who want to be a dentist, and the nation have no new
dentist
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dentists
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anymore. In conclusion, the problem that many
people
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with
the
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apply
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health
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problems do not
visit
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the
hospitals
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and
usual
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the usual
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doctor is definitely a negative development, I think. So we have to go to their usual
doctors
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to find the exact reasons
of
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for
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illness and keep their number of
doctors
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and
hospitals
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.
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