CONTEMPORARY MEDICINEVS

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

BY:Jean Ang (16)Chong Kai Ling (9)

Research Question

Western/ Contemporary medicine is more effective than traditional medicine. Do you agree?’

DefinitionsContemporary medicine• applies health science, biomedical research, and medical

technology to diagnose and treat injury and disease, typically through medication or surgery, but also through therapies as diverse as psychotherapy, external splints & traction, prostheses, biologics, ionizing radiation and others.

Alternative medicine• healthcare and treatment practices, including traditional

Chinese medicine, chiropractic, folk medicine, and naturopathy, that minimize or eschew the use of surgery and drugs.

Effective • Successful in producing a desired or intended result.

Alternative medicine:

• Proven that people live longer • More affordable• Altered to patient’s conditions• Less load on the body

• Ask if the patient have any allergies before prescription

• Ensures no adverse reactions after consuming the medicine

Care for Patients well-being

• Drugs and chemicals used in contemporary medicine may cause patient to react negatively

• Patients may become more sick

Less Load on Body

Contemporary medicines serve as health hazards

• chemotherapy,• cost of eight weeks of chemotherapy

can range from $100 to $30,000, • cases where chemotherapy damages

healthy cells, accelerating the growth of cancer tumours.

• causing more cancer in the following years.

Affordable Treatment • USD$40-$60 an hour, even

consultations regarding the common flu.

• consultations may or may not contain discussions regarding treatments that would actually help the patients.

• Traditional Chinese consultations costs around $12,

• Cost can be changed. May be cheaper

Counter Argument:• Government subsidies • Medical insurance to cover for

medical fees. • These privileges are only applicable

to contemporary treatment

• Patients spend money on contemporary medicines because they have not heard of types of alternative medicines

• In a survey, almost 60% of the participants did not know that alternative medicines existed and could be successful,

• People unknowingly spend more money on contemporary treatments

Affordable Treatment (continued)

Counter Argument:

• Chemicals and drugs have undergone research and testing

• scientifically proven unlike the herbs used in contemporary medicine

• Physicians mix medicine according to patient’s sickness

• More precise• Contemporary medicine is made

for the general public

Specifically altered

Physician making a remedy

Different types of Chinese herbs that contain medicinal value and healing abilities

Conclusion: Therefore, we feel that contemporary medicine is not more effective than alternative medicine

Credits • http://www.livestrong.com/article/153376-th

e-average-cost-for-cancer-chemotherapy-treatment/#ixzz2RIOlaQIC

• http://www.tcmtreatment.com/tcm-teaching/advantages-tcm.htm

• http://www.naturalnews.com/036725_chemotherapy_cancer_tumors_backfires.html