Take a look at this article which highlights the ongoing debate between natural health providers and the medical establishment who continually berate any ‘alternative therapist’ claiming that there lacks substantial evidence to support alternative health.
Poor Oprah, she is merely supporting topics that the public are obviously interested in. Did anyone see the Doctors edition with Jenny McCarthy and Autism??
It’s a shame when at the end of the day all ‘health professionals’ (regardless of backgrounds and beliefs) get bad mouthed and discredited and leave the public misinformed about the true benefits of each discipline!
Don’t we ultimately share the same goal of helping clients achieve optimum health and be free from disease?
Lastly, I think Deepak Chopra’s comment says it all………
Dr. Deepak Chopra responded to the Oprah bashing with this Alternet article, where he states,
“The criticism the medical establishment is directing at Oprah through this article only exposes their own frustration in having squandered their credibility with the public. They hope that if they can successfully attack Oprah’s immense credibility, then they can magically get some of that credibility back for themselves. However, if people still trusted the health care industry to act in their best interest the way they did decades ago, then it would be unnecessary to brand Oprah for “crazy talk” simply because she occasionally provides a forum for ideas outside of mainstream medicine.
The medical profession is burdened with a host of problems that Oprah addresses with more candor and force than the AMA. She promotes wellness and prevention, two areas that drastically need improvement. She brings up creative solutions to problems that medical science is baffled by, such as the healing response itself and the role of subjectivity in patient response. These are issues that few M.D.s are willing to explore, yet she has done so for decades.
… What this tells me is that medicine needs Oprah and other patient advocates who are demanding that official medicine heal itself. To accuse them of lacking medical credibility is a red herring. Patients aren’t supposed to know more than their physicians. The fact that they often do, at least insofar as alternative treatment goes, is both a sign of hope and cause for distress.”
