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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 negative development?

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These days, there are many medicines and
treatment
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 which are available for everybody. So they refer to them whenever they have some disease or any issues in relation to their body health and use them. In my
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 it is a negative approach and have several adverse impact on them.
In
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 one hand, people might have a serious health problem
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 not aware of
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and they just have some routine symptoms. When they consume some medicine by themselves and without
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doctors
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 examination or suggestion , they just relieve the symptoms and think they get over their disease.
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, many kinds of cancers do not have any special symptoms and many people go to the doctor very late for treatment because they ignore their
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 by using lots of treatments by themselves.
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, people who consume lots of medicines without visiting
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them
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. So they might involve
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 harmful for them and they do
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 know about the side effects of them.
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they are likely to take their medicine
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 they
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 not any special
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. So their medicine might be out of date or not being original. In conclusion, I think it is a negative development
which
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 individuals have access to many kinds of medicines and
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 and use them without visiting their doctors.
This
 phenomenon might be really harmful and have inevitable side effects.
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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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