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Calling All Skepchicks!

Women are more susceptible to certain medical conditions, and it has taken decades for the field to explore them...
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Yet the most common genetic disadvantage with respect to health is being the owner of a Y-chromosome.
 
This makes me want to cry. Or laugh. Perhaps laugh so hard that I cry.

A woman knows her own body better than any medical professional
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All this time, I've had my cooch examined by men, but now you're telling me I'm qualified to do it myself?! Woah!

Women deserve the opportunity to ask questions, challenge medical opinions, and be involved in treatment selection.
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Shut yer trap woman and git yer butt back in the kitchen and make me a sammich!

The training includes 5 years of basic sciences, diagnostics, clinical skills, nutrition, counseling, physical medicine, botanical medicine, homeopathy and pharmacology.
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Oh my that's impressive. Cramming 10 subjects into 5 years, yeah I bet they're real experts in all of those fields. Oh look at that, homeopathy, I've heard that's much better for women than the chemicals those filthy patriarchal man-pigs shove down our throats.

Most Naturopathic providers are women who want to serve women.
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I prefer being served by men. =/ You got any male naturopath-thingies?!

I'd rather be dead than be one of those wholefood/yoga/sunshine and rainbows/treehugger/chemicals are bad/hippie-women-thingies. They scare me. :(
 
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"Most Naturopathic providers are women who want to serve women."

Is that code for something else?


Seriously, though, why is having ovaries taken as some kind excuse for gullibility?
 
What are you saying about my ovaries? :(

If you read her comments, you'll find this:

Naturopathic medicine is based on a philosophy. The idea is to treat the cause of disease, as opposed to symptoms [...] "Naturopathic medicine" is not researched based. The medical treatments we employ, are.
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What. =/
 
madmonk76 said:
"Most Naturopathic providers are women who want to serve women."

Is that code for something else?


Seriously, though, why is having ovaries taken as some kind excuse for gullibility?
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Slight more complex than that. Men tend to be resistant to healthcare of almost any kind (to the point where in one area the NHS was sending people out to look for sick men so they could treated the before they dopped dead) so trying to sell them extra healthcare isn't going to work to well.
 
I suspect my own gullibility in the past had more to do with trust than anything else. Moreover, I think I mistook the confidence of some "con men" as competence.

I think most people assume that others are like themselves, and more trustworthy people are probably more trusting until something comes along to teach them otherwise.

Ivor is correct in that having a Y chromosome is hard on health--actually it's testosterone specifically--it makes you boys live "harder" and wear out sooner. Castrati don't have the same problems as their testosterone laden bretheren.
 
"The idea is to treat the cause of disease, as opposed to symptoms"

Every time I see that all I can think is - wouldn't that idea kill children suffering from most kinds of severe dysentery? Isn't it far more important to keep kids hydrated than to try to cure the bugs causing the problem?
 
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Ivor is correct in that having a Y chromosome is hard on health--actually it's testosterone specifically--it makes you boys live "harder" and wear out sooner. Castrati don't have the same problems as their testosterone laden bretheren.
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Ivor ways up pros and cons....

No, I think I'll keep my balls.


<-----To late for Monty (no nuts) though!
 
legne said:
All this time, I've had my cooch examined by men, but now you're telling me I'm qualified to do it myself?! Woah!
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I'm not sure that's a word I'm comfortable with. Cooch.

Cooch cooch cooch cooch

I guess it could grow on me.
 
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Naturopathic Medicine: A feminine approach to health care

Women gravitate toward this approach because it is less invasive, and more empowering.
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According to Rose Shapiro (p.218, Suckers: How alternative medicine makes fools of us all), that claim isn’t too far off the mark:
We know the prime users of alternative medicine worldwide – it’s those middle-aged, middle-class, educated women with a high disposable income.

The younger end of this group is also likely to take their children to naturopaths and cranial osteopaths, to avoid having them immunised and to medicate them with shop-bought homeopathic and herbal remedies.

Alternative medicine offers these women a way to take control, to be remarkable in their day-to-day lives and to make them feel as if their needs as individuals are being attended to. It touches them, both physically and emotionally, at a point in mid-life when many women in our society say they are beginning to feel invisible. It tells them that they are unique different from every other person and, importantly, more, much more, than the sum total of their symptoms. And as we shall see, it provides the kind of positive reinforcement that most adults could not reasonably expect from their closest friends, or even their partner.

Indeed, ‘nutritionist’ Gillian McKeith offers a cereal bar* which lists ‘unconditional love’ amongst its ingredients.
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*See here:
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/diet_and_fitness/article474842.ece
 
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I know there are some specific physiological differences generally found between men and women, but I didn't realize that those differences ran so deep, that all of medical science works completely differently between the two! :D
 
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