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

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Since a few years ago, using traditional treatments or refusing to
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have been trendy among some
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of society;
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health and medical conditions are boosting, some people refuse to use chemical peels or even avoid
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to
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. As far as I
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, the superiority of going to
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and acting
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the prescription
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the drawbacks. First of all, during the
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some serious diseases have been
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with the past; namely cancer,
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, and
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other incurable illnesses. Even
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in
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cases, folks refuse to go
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clinics and they try some traditional remedies until they become terminally ill. So
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, eventually doctors may not be able to rescue them;
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patients need
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some tablets or in some cases
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surgery.
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, some of these pills that are taken arbitrarily by
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have the potential to make everything worse. Regarding the other side of
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issue, roughly most of the medications possess side effects; and if someone takes them for a long period of time, they will see its consequences in the long run.
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, people who take medications for mental diseases like depression after several months will face
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with
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overweighting
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of their medical drugs. But, the principal point is that these treatments help some people to relieve their pain or totally be healthy;
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, dealing with these minor imperfections
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it.
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, despite the fact that whether or not medicines possess some flaws
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, in some cases it is totally necessary to visit a doctor in order to cure the health problem.
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