Alternative Medicine: Some healthy comment

Abstract

"We see the health insurance company’s advertisement on TV — a patient lies face-down on a table while a man chants as he slaps together two fish over the patient — and we smile at this over-the-top expression of Alternative Medicine (AM)." This presentation does not seek to embark on debate. Rather, it seeks to offer brief comment and reminder on realities that need to be borne in mind as opinions are formed and decisions undertaken.2 The stimulus to what follows was a phonecall to the LCA’s Commission on Social and Bioethical Questions, the caller seeking opinion on Iridology. The Commission considered that some comment on AM might be healthy for the LCA.