The speaker (Joy Kong, MD) argues that many patients with chronic illnesses, disillusioned by failed conventional care, are taking control of their own healing rather than viewing doctors as infallible. She attributes the rise of alternative/other approaches to medicine to patients' persistence and a perceived effectiveness of these therapies for people who have exhausted standard treatments.
People are just beginning to wake up. Instead of treating doctors as gods, but look at doctors as limited human beings with their own biases and limitations and how some may not be ready to embrace newer and possibly more powerful therapies. So patients are taking things into their own hands. If you are a patient that's sick from a chronic illness and you've gone through a dozen of doctors and seen the best specialists and been to the Mayo Clinic and you're still not better, what are you going to do? Do you going to surrender that this is the, this is it for the rest of your life, or are you going to do everything you can? And the life force within us is what drives so many people to seek anything possible. And that's why this whole other way of doing medicine is thriving, is getting hold, because it actually works and actually really help people. So that's what I see in, in the shift in medicine.
