Nowadays, a growing number of people with health problems are trying alternative medicines and treatments instead of visiting their usual doctor.
Do you think this is a positive or a negative development?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Write at least 250 words.
It is a growing concern in the healthcare sector that the public nowadays is growing more reluctant to seek trained doctors or medical practitioners for treatments of diseases, instead, they use medicines to try to alleviate the symptoms themselves. In my opinion, this is a detrimental development to the well-being of people.
Firstly, using medicines without medical assistance from doctors could pose undesired results and could cost the life of the drug-taker. Medicines are known to have numerous side effects and one's doses of drugs vary from person to person. If such effects or drug doses are not well assessed, those medicines could do more harm than good, potentially leading to organ malfunction or death. The ingredients or substances in different medicines could also counter-interact with one another when taken simultaneously, making the drugs ineffective. Certain medicines are required to be taken with specific conditions such as after fasting for several hours. Not being informed of necessary information when using medical treatments could be a waste of money and resources and put the lives of patients in peril.
In addition, a number of fatal diseases, such as stroke, and skin cancer, could be treated if the patients are hospitalized or receive medical support as soon as possible. Those diseases start off just as minor ailments such as headaches, a change in appetite, or small dark spots, but they could gradually destroy healthy, functional cells in the body and turn into end-stage incurable cancers. Frequent visits to a doctor's office or consults with practitioners could help tremendously in recognizing the seem-to-be-harmless symptoms from an early stage and therefore, in significantly improving the chances of survival.
In conclusion, I am of the opinion that the general public should acknowledge the implications of using medicines without any consultation with their doctors and that this trend should be abandoned.
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Your first paragraph is entirely off-topic.
It is not about official medicines but home remedies handed down in families for generations. For example, my mother's grandmother insisted that blackberry wine was a cure for ulcers, and black pepper tea was effective against the flu. These are called "alternative" medicines. They are not tested in scientific studies. They are not prescribed by doctors.
In addition, a number of fatal diseases, such as stroke, and skin cancer, could be treated if the patients are hospitalized or receive medical support as soon as possible. Those diseases start off just as minor ailments such as headaches, a change in appetite, or small dark spots, but they could gradually destroy healthy, functional cells in the body and turn into end-stage incurable cancers. Frequent visits to a doctor's office or consults (wrong word) with practitioners could help tremendously in recognizing the seem-to-be-harmless symptoms from an early stage and therefore, in significantly improving the chances of survival.
The second paragraph is not very relevant, either. The task is about people who have health problems. They have seen a doctor. They are not happy with the results. They resort to alternatives.
In conclusion, I am of the opinion that the general public should acknowledge the implications of using medicines without any consultation with their doctors and that this practice trend should be abandoned.
Creating alternative medicines.
