Heh. A friend of mine was lamenting on FB about the death of her doctor from pneumonia. She couldn’t understand how pneumonia could be fatal for someone otherwise healthy in this age of antibiotics. I explained how there were some very nasty strains of bacterial pneumonia that could hit so hard and fast that they killed before anyone could intervene, and before antibiotics could help.
Then I found out her doctor was a homeopath who had treated himself with homeopathic “cures” for his pneumonia.
Good to know that some homeopaths practice what they preach.
Here’s a lovely article by a pro-homeopathy doctor (of naturopathy and chiropractic, that is), which argues that homeopathy is the treatment of choice for all types of pneumonia.
“It is in fact hard to imagine a person dying of pneumonia with a physician experienced in genuine homeopathy at the bedside, even in the worst and most hopeless circumstances, whether it is in an infant in the last stage of viral pneumonia in an ICU, a centenarian in a very weakened state when all hopes are given up, a wasted and incapacitated middle-age man with a four-year refractory Aspergillus pneumonia, a patient with advanced lung cancer, or a comatose patient in the last stage of AIDS.”
I guess the deceased homeopath had better imagination.
I had a FB friend who was (and probably still is) addicted to this kind of nonsense, from anti-vac to how Sandy Hook was a government plot to take away our guns and/or freedomsz. My responses were always a polite “Well, that’s actually not true, here’s a link…”, because it’s a real-life friend whom I don’t wish to antagonize unnecessarily. Turns out I was the one who got unfriended. Not showing enough respect to the truth-seekers, I suppose.
I don’t care how many college degrees a person might have or how eloquent they are, if they spew alt-medicine or conspiracy bullshit they are an idiot regardless.
Surprisingly he was a genuine Emm Dee Medical Doctor who drank the kool-aid (albeit diluted beyond being flavorful anymore). He practiced almost nothing but homeopathy despite having a genuine medical degree and license.
I wonder how many of his patients died from him dispensing placebo rather than effective medications before he bit the big one.
I have a couple of people hidden for this reasons, and have unfriended a few others but they were people I don’t see IRL anyway. It was mostly for anti-Obama posts; I don’t mind them for the most part, but when they compare him to Hitler, or saying things like “don’t re-nig in 2012” during the campaign, bye-bye. I also unfriended a distant relative who constantly posts (posted?) atheist memes for posting one that advocated a Christian holocaust. :eek: This man has gotten into trouble at work for preaching to/insulting co-workers WRT this.
I had someone who I see IRL hidden for a while because of this. She’s currently training for a new career, and her political posts have waned in their forcefulness, so I suspect someone told her that she needs to be careful about this if she wants to be able to get a job a few years from now.
Medical Examining board would not like that, and could pull a license for such a thing. I’m not sure of the local laws. If a homeopath who’s not an MD can do it legally probably an actual MD could to.