Foreigner
Bluelighter
exactly polymath!!
foreigner, every one of those questions can be given a rough answer in a few sentences. some of them, i.e. do you diagnose breast cancer personally?, are yes or no questions. regarding biomarkers, most have codes so again it's a one word answer.
every one of those questions, apart from the first, asks what you do, and therefore cannot be answered by research, only by yourself. it took me years to learn the skills i have now, but i can explain what i am doing to my team, i'm the only data analyst, the rest are biologists, its not difficult. so please answer them, i'm genuinely interested and open to changing my mind. i'm not asking to shoot you down.
i am sorry the sentence you bolded came across as patronising. as it stands, i don't believe you, because you are giving me no reason to. i would dearly like to, as i don't want people to suffer unnecessarily, and it seems that you have a way to. the burden of proof for your claims falls to you.
the reason i don't believe you is because i know for a fact that herbal preparations are not used in state of the art cancer treatment. i also know for a fact that researchers working on state of the art cancer treatment are open minded and would use herbs if there was evidence that they were more effective than current therapies. therefore, either there is no such evidence or they are not aware of the evidence. as you apparently have this evidence i don't understand why you wouldn't want to use it to substantiate your claims and save lives beyond those of your patients.
On the one hand you ask me for answers and on the other hand you say you don't believe me, so that seems like a losing proposition from where I stand.
It's cool if you don't believe in traditional medical systems. I know they work. Why? I am licensed in my province to practice them, I work in a clinic, and I've effectively cured people of various diseases over the years. People who like to talk shit about holistic medicine usually don't know very much about it.
TL;DR. Traditional medicine isn't really medicine, its guesswork. Animal testing is sometimes okay but rarely.
Depends which system you're talking about, and which disease is being treated. Your wide sweeping generalizations show a deep level of ignorance.
A lot of modern medicine is also guess work, despite being "evidence based". The BMJ talked about it extensively in the report I posted above. There are a lot of procedures being done now that have no rhyme or reason... they just got pushed through the ranks.
My view of medicine is that we should be taking what works from many different systems and not just relying on the one. The physiomedicalists and their descendants have not done a very good job of managing chronic conditions.
It's unfortunate because people think that when I promote traditional systems that I am saying they should only use traditional medicine. That's not true. I'd love to see hospitals that have modern medicine and traditional systems side by side, like we see in Asia. Modern medicine has an abysmal track record for chronic conditions... but it's great for emergency care and certain other conditions (like diabetes mentioned above). If we had an synergetic system, we could have a really healthy and robust population. As it stands, modern medicine is a hegemonic force that does not want companions. They want to rule everything.