Editorials

Editorial Issue 102

The media and medical establishment climate we live in defies belief! According to research widely reported in the UK, more than 10,000 people in the UK, die every year from adverse reactions to drugs such as aspirin and non-steroidal anti-inflammatories. Also, going into hospital puts patients at significant risk of adverse reactions to drugs administered, not to mention the potentially fatal risk of contracting a dreaded MRSA infection from the hospital ward.

Editorial Issue 101

I sense that as practitioners and/or consumers of complementary medicine, we currently find ourselves in strained circumstances, sometimes with conflicting allegiances. This, I feel, is somewhat of a reflection, in part, of the rather sombre and foreboding canvas of events unfolding internationally, which is sorely testing our sense of control in our lives.
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Editorial Issue 100

How should we practise medicine? At first glance, this might seem as daft a question as How long is a piece of string? Or How do I love thee, let me count the ways. You might imagine that you would get a different sort of medicine practised by each individual medical practitioner.
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Editorial Issue 99

As professional health practitioners and serious users of complementary medicine, I imagine that the majority of Positive Health readers may not respond well to massively overblown, tabloid-like headlines laden with conspiracy, doom-laden tales of woe and catastrophe. I usually give these a fairly wide berth myself, often distrusting their exaggerated claims and lack of substantiation.
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Editorial Issue 98

I have never been comfortable with the dichotomies and schisms semantically describing various approaches to healthcare. Why do we have to continually divide and categorize types of techniques, practitioners and even beliefs by terms which are at best ambiguous and at worst, misleading: conventional medicine, traditional medicine, orthodox medicine?
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