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 relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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It is argued that an increasing number of individuals with health problems are opting
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treatments
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of going to hospitals. In my opinion,
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is a completely negative development because alternative
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are not able to completely cure a disease and safety is not guaranteed. Using alternative remedies to cure people’s health problems, are not successful.
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because
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can reduce symptoms, but they can't make them disappear.
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causes a big problem
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if individuals notice that they are still sick, and they decide to go to the hospital. The doctor will tell them to do a body examination, but after taking
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,
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can lead to errors when analyzing, since the treatment that they had followed could
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omission or short-term disappearance of some indicators in the analysis.
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, 30 minutes after taking ibuprofen, the feeling of pain will directly disappear for some hours, but
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it will start again, so for some diseases,
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is not the best solution. The use of medicine
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not indicated by doctors, effectiveness and safety are not guaranteed.
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is because people do not know what problem they have. So they will search on the internet for the disease and the solution, but the answers that they may
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on the websites can be false
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since some illnesses have the same symptoms.
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, people won’t treat their problems as important, risking their health and well-being. Recent research concluded that around 85% of people do not give importance to the diseases they have because they think the problem they have is not dangerous. In conclusion, taking
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without
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permission, will not heal the illness completely and it can cause
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misunderstanding
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taking analysis,
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, I believe,
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is a completely negative development.
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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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