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 ?

Alternative
medicines become popular these days and more
people
start
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to prefer these methods for
cure
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ilness
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illness
illnesses
rather than going
the
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hospitals. I believe that
this
trend contains
to
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many risks for
induviduals’
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individuals’
health.
However
, it
also
has one positive aspect
to
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for
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people
who suffer from cancer.
Alternative
medicines do not contain any scientific background or cumulative knowledge based on literature and
human
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body is so complex to understand without science-based approaches. Because of
this
, any other alternatives
rather
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than modern
medicene
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medicine
can’t solve any problem that
happen
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in the human body.
Furthermore
,
alternative
cures can be dangerous for
the
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people
who have an allergy
for
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the specific chemicals that
offered
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by
non-proffesionals
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non-professionals
because when
people
go to the hospital, doctors make lots of blood test to see if a person have any allergy to the pills before
the
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they
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treatment, but others don’t have
these kind
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this kind
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of technology to check
people
’s conditions.
On the other hand
,
alternative
treatments only can work for
people
who have
a
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apply
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late-stage cancer. These
people
mostly have
limited
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a limited
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amount of time to die after the doctors find
an aggressive tumor cells
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.
Last
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evidence shows that positive belief about treatment can increase
people
’s lifespan and
this
is called
placebo
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the placebo
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effect.
For instance
, if the patient
believe
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that
given
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pill will save him/her life, it doesn’t matter that even
doctors
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if doctors
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give a candy as a medicine, the treatment will end with
more
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success rate. So, if these
people
have a strong belief
about
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in
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alternative
medicine, they can increase the time that they live. In conclusion, from my
perspective
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people
should go
hospitals
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to hospitals
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and take help from modern medicine because
alternative
medicines don’t have any positive
outcome
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outcomes
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to
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in
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the
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people
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life unless
if
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they are not fighting
with
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agressive
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aggressive
cancer
that
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result shorten lifespan so quickly.
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  • 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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