In your earlier book, Spontaneous Healing , you show how these non-emergency conditions go away on their own, as often as not. Most disease is self-limited. Many people over the years have said that the best thing medicine can do is distract the patient while the disease gets better on its own. You're also not a blind advocate of all alternative treatments, either. No, not at all.
Alternative medicine is a very mixed bag.
It includes ideas and methods that are very sensible and useful, and that regular doctors ought to know about. It also includes some ideas that are foolish, and a few that are dangerous. I think that the challenge is to sort through all of that and pick out what is good and useful and how we can incorporate that into the standard system. I'm trained as a botanist as well as a medical doctor, so I have a lot of expertise in the area of botanical medicine, and I think there are a great number of herbal remedies that are safe and effective and that doctors ought to know about. That's one I'd put up high.