AB - Wednesday, October 31, 1984 - North Shore News re drugs and the knife the ONLY way? OHN REYNOLDS THE MLA has a point when he says the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons has waged a vendetta against Pieter Taams, the doctor who was defrocked for pracuising non-traditional medicine. Dr Taams was drummed out of the medical brotherhood in J98t for breaking doctor-patient con tidentiality and = practusing alternative medicine. | know nothing about the contiden tality thing. But hts real crime’? was his belief that there are more ways of look Ing intO a person's entrails then peering down a throat Cast out, he continued to treat people, was) taken betore the beak, tound gull y, and fined It's a case of justice afd the law being two ditterent things, because in many in- stances alternative medicine can be as effective as the regular kind Thousands of British Col umbians have tound that the drug and the knife are not necessarily the answer to their pains, and at is taking the jolly old college a long time to wake up to that Some progress has been made, but not much Not Coo long dago, acupuncture was tidiculed as quackery supreme Now it’s all right to do it as long as youre a doctor (And therefore not taking mones away trom the pros, said the eymie ) Chiropractic was also a none It toot now OOK. and some “real doctors get this straig ht Doug Collins Ds) have taken to practising what used to be seen as a black art Hobhstig medicine is the treatment of the whole per Son bods, mind and spirit And official medicine writes uwooott as witth doctors ft wet Butevenaifat were, who the hell cares as dong as a cure iwettected? As tor the Outside chance that it may be harm ful. can orthodox medicine always claim to be hat mless? 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PMURS Wy FRI 9Y SAT 95 SHI TECH 681-TECH IO. daaltty St Van. ouver “ytesdbarens Ontario who had an opera tion on his tummy, complain ed that something was bothering him,and on being opened up again was found to have an old decorating his intestines ORK Anyone can make a mistake But there are more serious things. Didn't the medical protes towel Sion one accept the drug thalidomide? Don't all kinds ot drugs have nasty side: ettects? Aren't some. or- thodox cures worse than the disease”? Naturopathy, osteopathy, homeopathy and lots of other pathies have been or are on the medical blacklist But the jolly old College might con sider what's going on in the toK where. in the 1970's, the General Medical Couherl rescinded the ban on doctors’ referring patients to the medically unqualitied And mn 1983. the British Medical Journal reported that there were 27 800 lay prackithoners in the Countey. as compared to 29 800 veneral practroners Obviously. tots oft mn Britain hase fidenee im the drug people lost oon and knife New Hom sist Specialist approach, and there have been no reports that the death rate has gone up as a result This here sermonette should not be taken to be an attack on doctors ff 1} have ever had a bad dovcior, | don't know about it, and it | should develop a lump on the bum | wouldn’t rely on prayers to get rid of it. Or thodox medicine is perform, FURNACE CLEANING DON’T SUFFER THROUGH ANOTHER WINTER WITH IN-HOME DUST, COLD ROOMS, AND HIGH FUEL BILLS. 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