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Posted inGeneral, Health

Does homeopathic medicine work (at least for some people)?

Bert Olivier by Bert Olivier 28 January 202028 January 2020

There is a huge, and unjustified, prejudice towards homeopathic medicine in contemporary societies, and I suspect that it is driven by the financial interests of what is colloquially known as Big Pharma, of which medical doctors are the involuntary, if not unwitting agents every time they prescribe some or other mainstream medication. Don’t get me […]

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What has alternative medicine got that modern medicine has lost?

Martin Young by Martin Young 29 October 20135 November 2013

I remember talking to the wife I had just met of an old friend whom I had not seen in twenty years. She was an avid avoider of medical doctors, preferring to take her family to alternative health practitioners. Learning I was a doctor, and to my dismay, she began telling me about her fantastic […]

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