Key features of alternative and complementary health services as a health issue?

Kimberlee Bowdish: The main issue is that neither works, thus making them very dangerous.People who practise these rarely have any kind of medical training, rarely are doctors and frequently are out to scam the unwary.Dangers are: making incorrect diagnoses, prescribing treatment that does not work, providing false hope to the terminally ill, prescribing dangerous treatments, delaying correct treatment thus allowing the patient's condition to deteriorate, deliberately inventing conditions and treatments so placing people under stress, scamming people out of their money in exchange for 'cures' that do not work.The health issues these disgusting practises cause is only barely documented: http://whatstheharm.net/alternativemedicine.html...Show more

Melina Minneweather: one had been proven to work and is well regulated with trials and stuff to show that, the other isn't and is often accompanied by very strange advice like waving magnets about or eating weird stuff like ! bear-bile