• AdelleChattre
    +5

    It must be lovely to live in a place where the price of an ambulance ride alone might not reach into the thousands of dollars. On the margins of a society without guaranteed health care, one catches as catch can. If an old home remedy'll work, and one doesn't happen to have the five or six or seven digits' worth of cash you would need to be seen in a hospital, so be it. Alternative and traditional medicine gets a lot of criticism, and certainly homeopathy is bunk, but not everybody gets blank checks for medical care from the state. "Real medicine" may as well be unicorn tears for a lot of people in this world.

    • drunkenninja
      +8

      You make a good point, however medicine as medicine cannot be blamed. Don't hate the player, hate the game.

      • AdelleChattre
        +5

        I hear you. At the same time, the placebo effect and the Hawthorne effect don’t qualify as ‘real medicine’ while Nuedexta does; so I guess ‘real medicine’ is a mixed bag.