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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Holistic vs Conventional
Message-ID: <311@unc.unc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 16:06:51 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 14 16:06:51 1985
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Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
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Summary: 

>> My main criticism of mainstream physicians is that they
>> give most of their attention to making sick people better,
>> and little or no attention to improving the health of
>> well people.

In article <786@terak.UUCP> doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes:
>Perhaps after all of the "dread diseases" have been wiped out the
>way that smallpox has, conventional medicine can turn its attention
>to "well people".  I'm not sure what they'd be trying to do, though.

How about starting with curing
	migraine headache tendencies,
	unexplained fatigue,
	oversensitivity to climatic changes or temperature extremes,
	hayfever,
	poor hand-eye coordination or unsteady hands,
	need for excessive sleep (over 5 hours per 24),
	....?

Frank Silbermann