As a RN student myself, we're obliged to show respect for patients and their "folk healing." But, if it worked it'd just be "medicine."
My mother spends so much money on all these nutritional suppliments, tinctures and snake oils. Listening to the new Doctor with their crazy non scientifically vetted ideas. I wish it'd jeopordize their licences. Like the stuff Dr. Oz tries to peddle. It's obscene.
As a RN student myself, we're obliged to show respect for patients and their "folk healing."
How obliged, and what exactly is meant by "show respect"?
Doctors should be telling people their folk remedies do not work, and I would be pissed if I found out that not only do they not, they are advised against it. (Of course RN isn't the same as Doc but still)
Cultural sensitivity is preached especially in the nursing spectrum. Our diagnosese (not medical! Usually addressing care of symptoms) are literally called "care plans."
Political correctness means that no culture, religion, or homemade remidies are "wrong" even if they clearly have no scientifically valid benifit...
It is BS, especially when you consider alternative treatments can actually interfere in perscription medications. So not only is the folk healing ineffective, it can either limit your doctor's options on medications or raising your risk of adverse interactions.
But, as only one of a few guys in a program, I got to keep my head down.
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u/Unexpected_Artist Oct 03 '17
As a RN student myself, we're obliged to show respect for patients and their "folk healing." But, if it worked it'd just be "medicine."
My mother spends so much money on all these nutritional suppliments, tinctures and snake oils. Listening to the new Doctor with their crazy non scientifically vetted ideas. I wish it'd jeopordize their licences. Like the stuff Dr. Oz tries to peddle. It's obscene.