| When patients come to homeopaths, usually they | | | | higher antibiotics so that our immune system is |
| come after a long battle with modern medicine. Here | | | | further suppressed under them. |
| we must respect the fact that modern medicine has | | | | Definitely it is agreeable to certain extent when the |
| given us breakthrough results in cases of severe | | | | antibiotics are given in cases of severe infections and |
| infections and terminal illnesses. I have utter respect | | | | epidemics. But to prescribe antibiotics in a |
| for it. But do we really need to suppress every | | | | non-complicated case of measles in a child seems |
| expression of our body with heavy dosages? Why | | | | horrific to me, when what the child needs is just a |
| do we see almost every prescription (definitely | | | | mild antipyretic, either allopathic or homeopathic. |
| barring some respectable ones) containing one or | | | | Is the practice of prescribing antibiotics emerges |
| more antibiotics? | | | | from the heavy advertisement from the medical |
| Well, here I understand that the basic principles upon | | | | representatives about their newly launched products? |
| which is based allopathic and homeopathic system of | | | | Are the pharmaceutical companies are blooming and |
| medicine differ. But who will take care of the basic | | | | thriving with this notorious practice? The practices |
| principle of the body? When the body gets deranged, | | | | seem to be rampant especially in rural set ups. The |
| certainly some mechanism is inbuilt in us that takes | | | | nasty practices are endangering the lives of |
| care of the derangement and repairs it on its own. | | | | thousands of patients who actually need much milder |
| What we need is to just assist in repair. Especially | | | | forms of treatments to allay their maladies. |
| when I see the viral and other fevers treated with | | | | Well, mass education and awareness among the |
| heavy doses of antibiotics, I feel ashamed of our | | | | public is one issue. But what we need at the moment |
| medical system altogether. Don't we know to | | | | is awareness among medical circles. Keeping our |
| diagnose the diseases or are we too lazy to look for | | | | prides as allopaths or homeopaths aside, we need to |
| the actual symptoms of the disease and just play | | | | inculcate the values of medical practice and keep |
| safe by prescribing the drugs that mask the | | | | patients' priority as our priority. Monetary gains should |
| symptoms of the disease? What are we doing? | | | | follow ethical practice. Who is going to teach us |
| Being an allopath or homeopath is not the question | | | | values in medical practice now? Is Dhanwantari (God |
| here. Being a good and caring doctor is the question. | | | | of medicine according to Hindu literature) watching |
| Everyone knows that recurrent consumption of | | | | from heavens and scared to come down due to |
| antibiotics reduce the body's natural resistance | | | | heavy mess these high potency drugs have created |
| capacity. Also we know that using the similar | | | | on this earth? |
| antibiotics recurrently reduce the power of those | | | | We really need to voice out about our safety and |
| drugs and create a kind of resistance to them. This in | | | | security in medical realms! |
| turn makes the doctors to prescribe stronger and | | | | |