In our country there is still a strong discrimination by the medical officer of health in relation to so-called alternative or unconventional.

With the exception of physicians who embrace, advise and treat themselves with these techniques, the majority of Italian doctors feel almost offended and does not accept the possibility of this choice on behalf of its clients.

Compare the silence, many patients do not tell the doctor to be treated or to have used the alternative methods, because they fear the ridicule, the non-acceptance or worse. The doctor understands but does not ask and do not inform, the conclusion is a disaster.

The autoprescrizione, understatement of serious problems, confusion and feeling of abandonment in the case of unconventional choice. Here are the results that many of the treatments are never revealed, we turn to the doctor only when things do not go your way.

I had a striking example: a middle-aged woman with recent pleurisy autoimunitaria disease called systemic lupus erythematosus or SLE. Immediately place the patient was hospitalized and treated with corticosteroids after tests and blood tests were diagnosed with certainty.

The patient, once discharged, having always treated with conventional methods is not coming from me, and has conducted six months of continuous treatment of acupuncture, I also suggested to make a visit to a homeopathic specialist in rheumatology with homeopathic treatments and indicated a target very strict diet.

The next survey carried out at the center specialist hospital, the tests and antibody tests were totally negativizati.

But when the patient has sempplicemente amesso did not use steroids but the other methods, there was a reaction of utter contempt, the patient was then asked to leave, but quickly saw his enthusiasm, he added, turning to the primary, "but not is not even a little curious? ", then the answer was" we are doctors lady! "

And that, we do not? Unfortunately, this is a problem, a problem comunicazone, a problem of ignorance and narrow-mindedness fat. The patient must be able cose as medical care and with what. The medical doctors who are not conventional in all respects the same as conventional medical formazone of several years of study on unconventional.

I always invite all of my patients talk to their doctor, the care that they are doing and why the results are important things. Unfortunately it happens that some reagisono evil, as it happened just yesterday to my young patient with lumbar block that by not taking the Voltaren Muscoril and acupuncture treatment is done but is seen to reduce the sick days from 3 to 1 day.

But we must insist, I think it's worth, is a path of growth. There are these phrases from my patients that allow you to understand how acupuncture may be useful on several levels deep. And I quote here some examples that have impressed me deeply.

"I never thought you could feel this good"

"I do not have those pains in the neck, but most of all is the head that has changed, I can deal with things more calmly"

"I do not have any more crises of headache, but most are back with joy to use perfume, I did not think would ever happen"

In other countries things are different, the patients chosen to lead the national health system in Switzerland and France have their requests to not only stimulate research and pharmaceutical companies. With us there is still fear and we can talk again, though sadly, the real conspiracy of silence.

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Tags: Acupuncture , alternative medicine , homeopathy , Omerta

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