LP>-> I know a person who is a touch therapist... To her, it's a very
  >-> ordered practice, with exact things to do for specific problems; as
  >-> orderly in its own way as pharmeceutical medicine is in its.
LP>I hope it's orderly in a better way; ie, with more awareness of its
  >limitations. Some of the orderliness of modern medicine is just the
  >appearance of orderliness. For instance, our current nosology
  >(classification of diseases) is not complete or accurate, but this is
  >easy to forget during the process of diagnosis.
I think it is, but I'm not sure.  It is true that modern medicine
pretends to much more knowledge than it actually has, and often forgets
the Hippocratic oath, which all doctors are supposed to subscribe to:
"First, do no harm."
                    Sondra
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