Re: Alternative medicine commentary
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Sat Sep 16 09:57:55 2000
i'd sorta like to see the Alternoids subjected to the same nonsense as
the rest of the practitioners - co-pays, cpt codes, malpractice,
profiling, databanking ... the list goes on. it is we who are the
schmucks.
art
At Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Zach Newton wrote:
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>Below is a sardonic quote taken from a financial forum. Could it be that
>the boom in spending seen in alternative medicine is reflective of
>overall wealth effect and discretionary spending that has driven the New
>Economy? The phrase "delusional optimism" cuts a wide swath across many
>of the issues discussed on this list in regard to expectations of the
>public at large.
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>"The alternatoid medicine mania is much like the stock market mania.
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>Both manias are driven by incessant promotion by corrupt, incompetent
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>and sociopathic media. Both are fueled by delusional optimism and
>herdlike behavior of the masses. Both are part of a millennium inspired
>madness, with the go-go nineties New Age momentum
>only now starting to decelerate. New Age medicine will die with New Age
>economics. The alternatoid medicine bubble will burst along with the
>stock
>market bubble and the onset of stagflation when the incredible waste of
>indulging in alternatoid medicine fantasies becomes intolerable."
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>Zach Newton
>Z. B. Newton, III, M.D.
>Atlanta/Gyn
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art fougner, md
A series of 1000 cases begins with but a single anecdote.
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