Witchcraft" hospital for the chop?
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2010-07-06 09:08.I was shocked and dismayed to read Tom Foot’s article in the Camden New Journal, in which Alternative medicine is compared to Witchcraft. My blood curdled to know doctors can be so biased.
I will be forever grateful that my own GP did not have these closed views when I told him that “acupuncture might help”. He referred me to the National Hospital for Homeopathy where I have been treated for severe pains in my legs. It has not cured the arthritis, but the treatments have given me great relief.
Complimentary medicine is an alternative hope for thousands of patients with pain and problems, and I have been the fortunate recipient for over three years. My spirits are lifted just walking into the NHH in Great Ormond Street. My wonderful Homeopathic doctor listens. She understands and treats not only the pain, but the anxiety, depression, tiredness and frustration that pain causes. She has helped me not only with medicine and a life-changing course (in Autogenics), but with kindness and attention.
The feeling of well-being that I have as a patient of the Homeopathic Hospital is priceless. Please believe the many patients - worse or better off than I - who have experienced alternative ways of healing not only the problem, but the peripheral ones as well. WHERE ELSE WOULD WE FIND SUCH HELP? I join the many voices that plead for the survival of the life-giving National Hospital for Homeopathy of the NHS.
Thank you.
Aliki Brandenberg
(17 Regents Park Terrace NW1 7ED)
5 July 2010