I have been a family doctor for over 14 years. I received my master's degree before entering medical school. I had a lot of schooling. This is not to brag how smart I am because there would be plenty of people to attest otherwise. No, I am writing this to prove a point. It is important that there be some certification process out there to make sure that medical care is not substandard or unsafe. This is always done for medical doctors. Many alternative practitioners, however, have very suspicious qualifications. I am not trying to denegrate natural healers. I have always been interesting in complementary and alternative medicine and try to keep up with the new information as it comes out. I love Dr. Andrew Weil and have followed his writings since I was in medical school. I almost did a rotation with him then (before it was popular like it is now). So where am I going to this? Well, the next time you go to some seminar on some new medical cure or even some old-fashioned alternative treatment, please check out the speaker's credentials. Dragan Dabic used to lecture on spirituality, practice alternative medicine and promised on his web site to vanquish afflictions ranging from impotence to autism with his "energy healing treatment." The problem is that Dragan was Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and the only thing he used to vanquish was life through his own special treatment; a little trick he calls genocide.
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