Re: The Healer (new show on TLC)
Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2017 9:07 am
Yes, the show seems to like to show a modern doctor who's already tried to help the patient commenting with surprise that the evidence shows some positive change. No one knows what happened (which is fine), but I agree that most people wouldn't believe it even if "credible" parties wrote down the objective results. Never mind whether many parties are on the payroll of Big Pharma. It just doesn't really fit this worldview. Even with a television show on a "learning" channel with "celebrity endorsements" of results. That almost makes it seem more fake to skeptics, I would think.
Of course there are "holistic" and "integrative" and "functional" and "evidence-based" medical practitioners out there as well. On RSF we are more aware that there is qigong, TCM, etc., but I doubt "we" know of any theory of do "this kind of qigong" and it will help UTI for example. Maybe it's actually early days of people getting some understanding of all of this and the integrative folks are onto something. Anyway ... on to ep3 pretty soon for me. It is interesting that his temperament, likable personality, and sincerity seem to equip him for all the challenges and reasonable level of skepticism people should have. It probably helps that he doesn't claim he does "TCM" or "Reiki" or any particular thing and that he professes he doesn't know anything about why he can do this, or how to diagnose anything.
Of course there are "holistic" and "integrative" and "functional" and "evidence-based" medical practitioners out there as well. On RSF we are more aware that there is qigong, TCM, etc., but I doubt "we" know of any theory of do "this kind of qigong" and it will help UTI for example. Maybe it's actually early days of people getting some understanding of all of this and the integrative folks are onto something. Anyway ... on to ep3 pretty soon for me. It is interesting that his temperament, likable personality, and sincerity seem to equip him for all the challenges and reasonable level of skepticism people should have. It probably helps that he doesn't claim he does "TCM" or "Reiki" or any particular thing and that he professes he doesn't know anything about why he can do this, or how to diagnose anything.