The Singapore way
I got some nasty comments again from a certain reader of my blog.
Anyway I would admit that I have made a turnaround from my previous stance on "free speech".
I have asked for respectful comments and for reader to avoid personal attacks for no apparent reason.
I have had to activate my option to moderate comments.
I think having accepted that I'll have to live in Singapore, my mindset has changed now. Free speech? Only if you do it respectfully and within certain specified boundaries specified by the owners of the forum or the blog.
If not then please be prepared to get censored.
This is after all Singapore. If you like free speech so much, then go to bloody Australia!
You can't have your cake and eat it.
posted by Dr Oz bloke @ 7:03 PM
5 Comments:
haha he has too much negative vibes. Definitely hope things can be more positive for him. I sometimes wonder how he enjoy life if everything is not up to his standards. ;)
hi dr oz bloke,
your blog is equally interesting! :)
are you really a doctor? recently, i have developed an interest in medical research. i saw an article on acupuncture using randomised controlled trials.
would u know where i can find them in any books ?
Medical research?
Studies on acupuncture using randomized controlled trials?
Interestingly, we were having a discussion about this in our class some weeks back. The China Universities are actually using RCT and western methods to evaluate acupuncture and TCM.
But all my classmates realised that the principles of TCM are such that the diagnosis and treatment methods can be very different from patient to patient and from doctor to doctor.
Yes you can use acupuncure, but if you saw 2 different doctors for the same problem, they might use different acupoints to treat you simply because they might have diagnosed you differently. And yet you can get the same recovery!
On the other hand if we were to say that all patients with neck pain who come in should be treated with X acupoint and then we see what the efficacy of the treatment is, the results may be very poor to be honest!
TCM relates the problems of the patient based on the symptoms as well as their constitutions eg predominantly Yang or Yin etc
Basically "one size fits all" is not TCM. It's western medicine.
Even with RCTs you find that when a study is done there is never a 100% positive result with a treatment eg drug.
But if the numbers are "statistically significant" then we view it as a success and positive. Well what about those people who had NEGATIVE results? What then? Something wrong with them? Or something wrong with the drug?
I'm more convinced that between different people there will be soem variations.
It's a bit like looking at the forrest vs looking at the trees.
Western medicine tends to view people as trees of different types of forrests and not bother so much with the different types of trees.
I hope you get what I mean.
I am convinced that the methods used to evaluate western medicine cannot be used in the same way for TCM.
Even more interestingly is that although in China they are using western scientific methods of research to evaluate TCM (and getting rather equivocal results), the National Institute of Health (NIH) in USA is using a very different approach to evaluate TCM. They try to allow for all the variations in the treatment and correct the results for these variations.
Strange don't you think?
Uncle Ozzie, who is annoying you so much??Don't get too affected by it.
Sometimes they just act like a pest that's all. heh heh heh.
hi dr oz bloke,
i think you are really a doctor. :)
well, i think i didn't make myself clear. i am called up for interviews to work in medical instituitions. there is a need to know about randomised controlled trials? do you remember seeing any books/journals/url that point to randomised controlled experiments?
thank you! :)
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