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Rachel Myr <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 9 Jan 2014 23:39:55 +0100
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Thanks, Lynn, for sharing your thoughts on how we view treatment modalities
(and the world in general).
Not everything that is important, is easy to measure. Not everything that
is easy to measure, is important. That said, I confess to being a
positivist. I like to delude myself that I have seen evidence of a
phenomenon, or can at least entertain an earthbound explanation for it
before I take it on board. And I bristle at the idea that attempting to
observe something in order to evaluate its effectiveness, or safety, may in
itself cause the 'something' to cease to exist, or at least to cease
working. It is so far from my belief system that I just check out of the
discussion at that point, bristling silently with my teeth on edge.  Yes,
there is more to life than what I can understand with my logical mind. No,
I can not as an employee of a public hospital in a biomedical paradigm
espouse the use of therapies invoking the supernatural or the intentionally
inexplicable.
This does not prevent me from referring to our staff acupuncturists, nor to
external practitioners of CST, (though the latter is not covered by the
national health plan), nor recommending empirically documented folk
remedies. Remember, I live in the country that gave the world limpet shells
to treat sore nipples :-P
Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway
who remembers when it was thought that disablingly painful menstrual cramps
were due to a woman's negative attitude to her own gender - back before
they discovered prostaglandins.

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