treatment of cancer patients

[Guest guest]

Yes, this line of thinking makes total sense. It seems a good

direction for a movement in our profession. Related to it are the issues

recently brought up about our continuing education and ceu's. So

much work to be done. We definitely can't depend on the schools.

Frances

pemachophel2001 wrote:

However,

at BPE, we hear all the time from students and practitioners who

are

attempting to treat really scary diseases with basically no training

and no access to good information on those diseases. I keep

wondering

why we think we can try to treat anything even if it exceeds

our scope

of education. I wonder what a Western MD would say if he

or she heard

someone was attmepting to treat psoriasis without ever having done

a

course in dermatology, let alone a clinical internship or rotation.

I would be very interested in hearing other people's opinions about

this issue. Please let me be clear: When I was a beginner, I did

this

myself. I never questioned whether I was working over my head.

So

please don't think I'm throwing stones at anyone. I most definitely

did live in the same glass house. Nevertheless, how come many of

us

tend not to ask ourselves this question? Why don't we as a profession

address this issue in a medically ethically responsible way? I

think

it would be a milestone in our evolutionary maturation if we did

bite

this bullet as a profession. Even within CM, there are specialties,

and, if you're going to treat a patient within that specialty,

you

should have some kind of training or education in that specialty.

That

training might be formal and conducted in school, but I would also

not

exclude self-education. I think it's one thing if you attempt to

treat

something after having studied all the available literature and

another if you attempt to treat something after having called up

a

customer service person at an herb company.

Am I making any sense here?

Bob

 

 

 

 

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