So I think the first step is to know when and when not to use the standard system. In general, if you're dealing with an acute condition, an emergency, a crisis, a disease in a vital organ, or something that's moving very fast, it's probably best to use the conventional system first. But for many of the common kinds of ailments that people come to doctors with, there aren't emergencies, and there is time to experiment with the gentler methods that are out there in the world of alternative medicine. Many of the patients that I treat end up using combinations of conventional and alternative medicine. 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.