Taking Care

07 Dec 2011 08:11p.m.

Noah Berkowitz wrote:

Nice post. Thank you.

25 May 2010 07:32p.m.

Michelle wrote:

Ruth may well be a nice person, but the (alleged) failings of medicine don't provide evidence that her practice is worthwhile, or that naturopathy or iridology actually are valid forms of diagnosis or treatment. What's really scary is that the iris is more unique and unchanging than our fingerprints and then we are expected to believe that you can see changes in them that correspond to organs in the body consistently in order to diagnose illness. I'd like to know not what she herself charges (that may well be little) but what those supplements cost and what the mark-up was on them, there were boxes and boxes of them and I very much doubt they were supplied free. In addition, I wonder what the supposed difference is between a naturopath and a so-called pill pushing doctor. At least a doctor will only prescribe for a recognised illness or health issue and makes no money off prescriptions but naturopaths "prescribe" supplements that they then directly profit off. In fact she did herself and her patient a great disservice by not recognising that the lesion she claimed was a cyst was beyond her capability to treat or even diagnose and did this even in the face of it's obvious spread. It's a common problem with the so-called alternative health industry and that's before you get to the issue of the lack of evidence for what's offered, there was another recent case of a breast cancer victim who has since died who had the cancer erupt into a huge weeping lesion after being treated with lights. That's why regulation is needed, these people need to be regulated out so that health care can only be offered by properly trained and registered professionals who work to set standards of practice and understand their limits and when to refer on. Lots of double standards here. http://whatstheharm.net/naturopathy.html lists many more cases of harm.

25 May 2010 01:01p.m.

E.Nicol &M.I.Thomson wrote:

We found your programme on last Wednesday 19th May regarding Mrs main and Ruth Nelson, the naturopath, unjust towards the latter.
Our associaion with Ruth Nelson goes back more than 20 years and we have found her to be a person of the utmost integrity. She has become a very good friend on whom we can always rely.
Over the years she has treated us for various conditions with great success. Therefore we find Mrs Mains story of her head cancer and the treatmentshe says she received from the naturopath, unbelievable.
In our opinion it was a great pity more time was not allotted to Ruth's side of the case.