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Professional medicine has no use for laymen.
In theory, some of this absurdity is eliminated when a patient sees a holistic MD, but in reality, most holistic MDs had extensive training as doctors and very little training in natural medicine so they are usually, as Andrew Weil proved recently, more comfortable with what they learned in a disciplined fashion in medical school. However, as one friend of mine said publicly to an enormous audience, he would rather see an herbalist with 30 years experience than a medical doctor who took a weekend workshop on herbs and still doesn't really know how to apply the little he or she learned. For me, it's not black and white. It always comes down to the right protocol at the right time for the right person. I have been absolutely committed to making certain that enough information reaches enough persons that no political or economic force could ever eradicate the knowledge of natural medicine nor garner it for private profit.