Post Debate: Alternative Therapists Outnumbering Gps ; One in Five of Us has Now Tried Some Form of Alternative Medicine. Helen Gabriel Asks If Its Continuing Growth in Popularity Is a Good Thing
Birmingham Post › August 19, 2005
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There are more practitioners of alternative medicine working in the UK than GPs.
More than 47,000 people are offering to stick pins in your flesh, send you into a trance or pump you with medicine.See the full content of this document
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Post Debate: Alternative Therapists Outnumbering Gps ; One in Five of Us has Now Tried Some Form of Alternative Medicine. Helen Gabriel Asks If Its Continuing Growth in Popularity Is a Good Thing
But the vast majority of practitioners can operate without qualifications. So what is alternative medicine?
It is notoriously difficult to define, partly because it includes such a wide spectrum of practices - acupuncturists, reflexologists, homeopaths, osteopaths and herbalists - but also because some practitioners refuse to accept there is anything 'alternative' about such therapies in the first place.They say 'alternative ...See the full content of this document
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