Alternative medicine might involve things like strong suggestion and placebos, and actually work. Quack medicine involves cleaning out the last assets of the victim and their family.
Fred
On Jun 28, 2005, at 9:23 AM, Habj wrote:
During the course in oncology, our teachers told us that many of their patients also sought for some alternative method of various kinds. They were not at all against it - they said the alternative people gave the patients something they badly needed, both for better prognosis and for quality of life - often not a very long period of time. That thing the alt.med. stuff can give in that situation, is hope...