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21 Cards in this Set
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96% of patients had received some advice or treatment before consulting their GP in this study
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Elliott-Binns 1970
Study repeated 15 years later - but THINK how different it would be today |
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Increasingly people recourse to impersonal sources of health advice: Telemedicine, NHS direct/111, INTERNET
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(Related to) Elliott-Binns 1970
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Why do people use alternative remedies?
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Natural, holistic, Western med isn't working, lack of knowledge about how medical treatment works, patient empowerment, treatments are 'cheap' and safe
Feeling it works --> It works |
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78% attend alternative people with musculo-skeletal conditions
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Thomas 1991
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Patients of non-orthodox health care had not turned their backs on conventional care, rather non-orthodox was sought as a supplement to orthodox medicine
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Thomas 1991
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There are 'multiple levels' of disease (from national (treated with vaccination policy) to an organelle malfunctioning (treated with radiotherapy))
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Thomas 1991
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Ways of defining a disease:
Deficient liver Qi Pulstilla constitution Peptic ulcer |
Thomas 1991
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London homeopathic hospital 'renamed'
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To avoid stigma?
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What's 'hot' and 'cold' in the proper language?
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Garam and thanda
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'Hot' may simply be the best western translation of 'Garam' - it may be a proxy for various symptoms which may be related to drug side-effects
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Bhopal 1986
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'I am completely against the use of Asian medicines in Britian' yet took ginger for his asthma...
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Bhopal 1986
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Lots of asians looked at asian medication negatively
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Bhopal 1986
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In this study, Asian patients generally thought doctors 'did not listen' and 'do not want Asian patients to be there'
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Bhopal 1986
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Consider if you were in Thailand - I would want to see a 'Western doctor' in a 'Western environment' if possible
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Not only for its evidence, but because its comforting being treated in an environment and by someone familiar with your culture and 'ways'
(I think for some, the fact Western medicine is evidence based is serendipity) Same with food, TV, etc. |
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The Asian healer listens very carefully, while the doctors here do not.
Sometimes I wish I did not come - especially as they give me medicine that often does not work |
Bhopal 86
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Stopping treatment when symptoms subsided seemd to be a common response
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Bhopal 86
An important thing to consider with GP training... |
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This person puts forward that homeopathy is 'peanuts' (£4 million). Condemning a treatment because the proposed mechanism of action does not fit the scientific dogma has a soviet feel (See Galileo)
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Stanford 2011
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There are dangers of homeopathy - consider malaria prophylaxis
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Stanford 2011
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If you probe Western medicine deep enough, the ultimate answer to the question 'How does that work' is 'I don't know'
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It seems alternative medicine is like that, but at a more superficial level
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Outcome of professionalisation process is the acquisition of a monopoly and autonomy
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Cant 1996
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Stages of 'professionalisation' and who came up with them
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Cant 1996
Unification (many providers united as a group that agree on one purpose and identity) Codification of knowledge (through training programmes) Social closure (not everyone can get in - exclusivity) Alignment to scientific paradigm (respected and verified) Support from strategic elites (e.g. the state) |
