Hi...
I think it's really important to remember that these are public forums. It's entirely possible that a doctor could see comments that were attributed to them. I don't think anyone's privacy is being invaded, once they've posted something on an internet forum. Whenever I post something that involves another individual, I try to think about what that person would think if they read the post. Would they think that I was accurately conveying what they told me?
If there are specialists who are telling their patients that certain treatments work, but there is no published literature to back it up, don't we want to get a dialog going to get the details? If someone said that their specialist was recommending Raindrop Therapy, should that go unchallenged? You know what happens if it goes unchallenged? It gets picked up as fact and reported as such. (We've seen that here a lot lately.)
If I wanted to convince people that what I was stating was fact, I wouldn't be afraid to attribute the facts to prove my point. And, I don't see anything wrong with someone discussing the issue with a person to whom statements were attributed, to get their perspective. Don't we all want the same thing... good, reliable information?
You may not believe me, but I would really love to find out that an alternative treatment was successful. Having gone through scoliosis surgery, I would never want anyone to have to go through it if there was a viable alternative. So, I'm often the first person to talk about people like Elise Browning Miller and Martha Hawes, or that alternative treatments can often reduce a person's pain. I am a lot less anti-alternative than people think. I just happen to think it's very important that claims be backed up by science. And, telling people that some unknown individual is stating that something is "working," doesn't further the cause.
--Linda
I think it's really important to remember that these are public forums. It's entirely possible that a doctor could see comments that were attributed to them. I don't think anyone's privacy is being invaded, once they've posted something on an internet forum. Whenever I post something that involves another individual, I try to think about what that person would think if they read the post. Would they think that I was accurately conveying what they told me?
If there are specialists who are telling their patients that certain treatments work, but there is no published literature to back it up, don't we want to get a dialog going to get the details? If someone said that their specialist was recommending Raindrop Therapy, should that go unchallenged? You know what happens if it goes unchallenged? It gets picked up as fact and reported as such. (We've seen that here a lot lately.)
If I wanted to convince people that what I was stating was fact, I wouldn't be afraid to attribute the facts to prove my point. And, I don't see anything wrong with someone discussing the issue with a person to whom statements were attributed, to get their perspective. Don't we all want the same thing... good, reliable information?
You may not believe me, but I would really love to find out that an alternative treatment was successful. Having gone through scoliosis surgery, I would never want anyone to have to go through it if there was a viable alternative. So, I'm often the first person to talk about people like Elise Browning Miller and Martha Hawes, or that alternative treatments can often reduce a person's pain. I am a lot less anti-alternative than people think. I just happen to think it's very important that claims be backed up by science. And, telling people that some unknown individual is stating that something is "working," doesn't further the cause.
--Linda
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