Most medical personnel remain largely unfamiliar with non-medical treatments, and tend to dismiss them without knowing about what they're dismissing. This is a great loss to the doctor as well as to the public.
Andrew SaulI wish there were easy answers to people's health questions. There aren't. There are answers, all right, but they are not easy.
Andrew SaulA doctor's authority in America often exceeds his or her knowledge. Whole bodies of knowledge in healing are ignored because they are unorthodox and non-medical. A doctor's education seems exhaustive, yet MDs study so much about drugs and surgery - and so little about nutrition, fasting, herbal remedies, spinal manipulation, massage, vitamin and mineral therapy, homeopathy, and more - that we realize their qualifications are incomplete.
Andrew SaulIt is a distinguishing feature of natural therapies that they are straightforward and reliable enough to safely do on your own, at home.
Andrew Saul