To not want to see a GP who had a qualification in Homeopathy?

[cordiality]

I've been offered an appointment with a newnGP at my surgery instead of my usual one, 'as she's a woman' (not that I requested that, but that's another issue entirely!)

I looked her up on their website and, among other specialities, she is a qualified homeopathic practioner.

Am I BU to think that you either practice mainstream medicine or homeopathy (which I, possibly wrongly, consider as being a bit 'woo') and to think that she's not the sort of doctor I would want to see?

Am perfectly open to being told I'm wrong by the way!

The duck quack their be trying to get you to see a which doctor next

YANBU - I'm with Morloth : I wouldn't see a GP that was involved in homeopathy, this is because I think homeopathy is a crock of shit and that anyone who believes in it is a bit dim - dim is not exactly what I look for in a GP.

I have a second home in France, where, although homeopathic remedies are considered, carried in all pharmacies, and often tried before visiting the GP, once you do get to see a proper doctor (which is much less of a drama out there than here), they are invariably ready with the whole pharmaceutical armoury at their disposal ... and not afraid to prescribe proper drugs either !

The thought of our NHS being run by the average British GP strikes deep fear into my heart ... I'd rather hand it to Sir Alan Sugar !

Spring - re "BTW Springy I am interested in the cause of symptoms thank you very much. I'd be a pretty shit doctor if I wasn't."

Then I must've visited an awful lot of shit doctors in my time. Finding a 'good' GP has been few and far between tbh - absolute crap most of them. I am not being inflammatory when I say this, arguing for arguments sake, it is just my experience and as a result I tend to avoid them like the plague because of endless past, very poor, experience. ime almost all of them are only interested to prescribe drugs, almost all not the least interested in me as a person or indeed the 'cause' of my symptoms etc. I'm sorry to report it and very much wish it were otherwise.

Don't anybody go blaming me on this eh - I've done everything I can to try to get on the good side of a GP but have so far drawn an almost total blank. Apart from one homeopathic GP i saw for a few years who, over time, took care to genuinely find out about me (my life, my family, my health, my history etc), almost all conventional GPs have offered shockingly bad 'care'. I do use natural remedies when at all possible ie herbs, don't use homeopathy - a choice that was respected by the homeopathic GP; who also grasped that I didn't want to use drugs to correct a symptom when it made more sense to me to explore the possible cause, if that was appropriate. i understand that a GP is bound by time, is a general practitioner, but this can't explain away some appalling experiences at the hands of too many GPs.

That said, I am a total fan of the NHS and am deeply grateful for it: absolutely stunning, for all its faults - which, I'm sorry to say, would have to include the often very poor quality of primary care.

Sorry springy didn't mean to snap at you. I think (hope) that more and more doctors nowadays will bd interested in you as a whole.

FWIW I'm not opposed to my patients trying alternatives nor dismissive of a lot of it. Homeopathy (or what I have come across) just seems so particularly opposed to people taking traditional medicine alongside it. So it just winds me up when people with no training or worse doctors who should know better put people at risk.

"If water had memory, it would be toxic. All water on earth has been recycled for millennia, holding heavy metals, excrement, dead and rotting carcasses, not to mention every single virus and bacteria. The very fact that you can drink any water and not die a slow and painful death means that water does not mimic the effect of things it once held."

but it hasn't been beaten with a leather belt and shaken and filled into little glas bottles to be sold for a fortune....
oh, dear :o

apology accepted Spring - in fact, rather lovely to have a GP being nice to me..

Homeopathy The Test

The BBC Horizon program, on youtube. If you dont have time to watch it, Homeopathy failed the test and no one won the money.

I saw that program on TV, actually, which is how I know about the $1mn yet-unclaimed reward I linked to earlier in the thread.