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.

Recently, more and more

people

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are attempting to take different medicines and

treatments

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rather than asking for advice from doctors whom they are familiar with. The development of

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phenomenon may have its pros and cons. On the one hand,

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patients' own backgrounds and health conditions, trying alternative

treatments

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and different medicines may be more likely to give them some more

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suitable

and flexible prescriptions which are able to help to cure disease specialisedly.

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,

people

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who are facing health problems like obesity and high blood pressure may need some specific

treatments

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which can be different from

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another common patient

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patient

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who

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not have these basic diseases. So it is indeed positive for some

people

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to cure their pains in some aspects.

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, if

people

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give up

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doctors they usually visit, some

people

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may face difficulties in gaining suggestions from a specific doctor who keeps trying to cure the disease from time to time.

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, patients may fail to obey doctors' advice constantly which is sometimes detrimental to their health and

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body

conditions.

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, if a doctor

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already

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a

patient

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who

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is trying

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hard to lose

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or

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weight,

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, the

patient

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turn

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to find some new medicine which may cut down the

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absorption

of

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carbon dioxide

for help, the effect may be less likely efficient and evident

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the change of the

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's habit. In conclusion,

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is now tend

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to try alternative methods

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as looking for

medinces

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medicines

and

treatments

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which are different as usual.

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trend may be a positive development

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it

also

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have

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some

side-effects

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side effects

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.