Posted on 11/23/2008 2:21:33 AM PST by CE2949BB
ScienceDaily (Nov. 21, 2008) — Non-white medical students are more likely to embrace orthodox medicine and reject therapies traditionally associated with their cultures. That is one finding from an international study that measures the attitudes of medical students toward complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). While seemingly counter-intuitive, white students view CAM more favorably than their non-white counterparts, the study authors say.
CAM is the common, collective term that describes non-orthodox therapies considered not intrinsic to the politically dominant health system of a particular society or culture.
Despite the growing popularity of CAM, many medical schools do not include CAM teachings within basic medical education. So researchers at four medical schools (Peninsula, UK; Birmingham, UK; Georgetown, USA; and Auckland, NZ) conducted two surveys to measure the attitudes of medical students toward CAM during their first and fourth year of medical training in schools that offer some CAM education either at the undergraduate or graduate level. The study is published online in Medical Teacher.
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If it quacks like a duck...or doc....
When you are really sick, a magnet isn't going to make it better...
White guilt quantified. Somehow the white medical students think that other cultures have more value than the people descended from those cultures do.
No, the white students haven’t had to suffer at the ridiculous “treatments” inflicted on the minority students. The joy of “cupping”, leeches, bleeding etc etc.
So.. if a person of non anglo background realizes that banging chicken bones along side or upside the head of the afflicted, probably won’t do them any good, were supposed to feel.. like they know something of real medicine?
I just HOPE that the CHANGE comming to a hospital near me does away with the Voodoo Chicken Bangin thing, and treats my cuts before I die from infection. I can HOPE, for a CHANGE...
Only if one reasons via fallacious logic.
That reminds me ....... I have a bloodletting appointment tomorrow morning.
I guess the author of the article was expecting cultural habits to trump education & was surprised when it did not.
Hello students, I’m am your Professor, Obama Mufasa! Today we shall learn how to do an appendectomy using the claw of a one-legged rooster, and how to make a poultice of iguana droppings, rodent hairs, and the incisor of a marmoset. Ready?
I’m wondering what culture invented coffee enemas as a treatment for cancer. They have a following on FR.
Thats because people in medical school understand they are there to study traditional western medicine. If they wanted to learn alternative medicine, they would go to an acupuncture school, etc. Most of the docs I know that are in to alternative medicine are the 1960’s liberal bent. Nuff said?
Bingo.
Just like how the Eastern Europeans don’t want EU totalitarian socialism. Been there, done that.
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