The Doc Calling the Rebel Quack(my own original play on words btw)

For acute conditions alternative treatments tend to be safe and free from the kind of side effects you are likely experience with drugs. That means you can always try something out and if it doesn’t work revert to the pharmacological approach. When it comes to conditions like cancer where the wrong choice might cost you precious time or even result in unnecessary death, the choice is not always so easy to make. No one wants to play Russian Roulette. A healthy skepticism is warranted. But I can tell you pointblank (sorry to extend the metaphor) that if chemotherapy was a treatment in the alternative sphere carrying the same cost, the same side-effects, and the same success rates, it wouldn’t just be illegal… it would be held as ultimate proof alternative therapists are barbaric, dangerous and unscientific.