Yeah, imagine the gall of those damned allopathic physicians, operating on patients with acute appendicitis, instead of sending the patient down to the local health food store for some more vitamin pills.
Or giving antibiotics to cure a Helicobacter pylori infection and heal a gastric ulcer, instead of sending the patient down to the local health food store to buy more vitamin pills.
Or giving Demerol to a patient passing a kidney stone, instead of sending him down to the local health food store to buy more vitamin pills.
Or repairing a torn anterior cruciate ligament, instead of sending the patient down to the health food store to buy more vitamin pills.
Or giving a schizophrenic patient medicine that stops the voices in his head, and allows him to live a more or less normal life, when what he really needs is to run down to the health food store for some more vitamin pills.
Or taking the handle off the Broad Street pump to prevent the spread of cholera, instead of sending everyone in the neighborhood down to the health food store for some vitamin pills.
Obviously it's a conspiracy against the vitamin pill peddlers. And we know they are never guilty of greed, fraud, or misrepresentation. Only the allopathic doctors do that.
-ccm
That is the best part of the job...