NATURAL MEDICINE FIRST

A oft quoted saying in chiropractic school was CHIROPRACTIC FIRST...
DRUGS SECOND...SURGERY LAST. I feature that the fist option/choice should be natural medicine. I can hear some saying that natural medicine is alright for some things , but it's not "real" medicine. I would agree that if you've been shot,, are squirting blood, have a bone sticking out of your skin or any life threatening situation , then you should take aproprate action. Other than trauma related deals (battlefields, car wrecks. etc.) and acute breakdowns of some system (heart attacks, arterial tears, strokes, etc.), western medicine is poor at preventing /treating situations that come on slowly. The case could be made that the majority of all health problems come on gradually, definately all system failures would come under this category.
A second deal with natural vs. "real" medicine is that there is a lot of natural medicine nonsense that is promoted , although to be fair the claims of nat. med. can't hold a candle to the bogus and even deadly pitches made for Rx. Where is the middle ground of just good medicine. That which is the best for the patient. I'm confronted weekly with patients who are caught in the middle. It's your health. Demand information to make your best choices. If I can be of service, please let me know. Thanx for reading.

Dr. Ezra Edgerton, specializing in natural medicine first