Why is it that some people happily go for flu shots, surgery and prescription pills, but balk at visiting a CAM practitioner. No, not balk, I need a stronger word. I think it is “distaste”. Where does the distaste some people show for CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) come from? We certainly haven’t killed anyone, gotten anyone hooked on prescriptions, or botched surgery. None of the practitioners I know are pushy or rude, we have minimal pressure put on us by Big Pharma to unethically make sales, and anyone who knows the average wages of CAM practitioners know that we’re not in it due to greed. We study for just as long, work just as hard, and provide more personalized attention. So how come it seems like only half the population like us and the other half loathe us? Is it because we spend our time asking whiny questions and complaining on blogs?

The goal here is not to complain. I just want to define the phenomenon that goes like this:
1) ask a Natural Therapist for advice, which most of them will give you for free
2) ignore this advice
3) see 3 or 4 doctors, then
4) rush to follow the initial advice when a 5th doctor recommends it

Oh well, at least a Natural Therapist is no longer synonymous with “Dirty Tree Hugging Hippie Selling Snake Oil”, and Massage is no longer associated with … ahhh … maybe that’s where the distaste comes from.