ARE YOU USING ANECDOTAL INFORMATION WHEN MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT YOUR HEALTH?

Many times healthcare professionals totally dismiss patient's experiences and results because it doesn't fit into their prescribed methods or drug protocols. Patient experience must be gathered in a way that generates high quality healthcare. This is especially true when individuals are exploring alternative wellness or holistic methods for their health.

More and more functional medicine and even traditional medicine practitioners are accepting and even promoting alternative methods and modalities for patient well being. Considering all relevant evidence anecdotal or not gives each person an equal opportunity to make an objective decision about their health and well being. Patient experience gives context to the clinical evidence and also directly informs our understanding of all the avenues to ultimate wellness.

The final decision for ones health should be made with all possible alternatives included. Sometimes the patient experience will not fit into the policy bodies that make priority-setting decisions based upon their budgets or accepted norms and standards instead of what is ultimately best for the patient. I find it refreshing that people are exerting their rights and choices to buck the traditional medical establishment. And, what is also refreshing is more and more compassionate medical professionals are listening and recognizing the positive impact alternative health and holistic technologies are having on their patients.

We all have the ultimate decision about our health and no, doctors don't know all there is to know about your well-being. It is quite frustrating to hear even family members say no, there is no other way than this drug or that drug. Or, I'll just follow my doctors instructions on this situation or that. When we give all our healthcare decisions to one person without any consideration of any other alternative then, the ramifications and results of that decision is our own responsibility. With the plethora of side effects listed for every single drug promoted for every single ailment on the planet, I implore everyone to at least look at those side effects more carefully.

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