Santosh Helekar wrote: > This is hilarious. Accepting one unscientific ritual and rejecting > another appears to be based entirely on quirky personal tastes, faiths, > moods, whims and fancies. I am tempted to provide a list of all the > fantastic quack practices to find out which ones are to be accepted and > which ones are to be rejected, just for fun. Perhaps, exorcism is in and > voodoo is out on the basis of these made up foggy individualized > idiosyncrasies.
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:22:38 -0700 (PDT) From: eric pinto <[email protected]> In a few words, Santosh has described a similar brand of medicine, much utilized in the West : it is called psychiatry! It is home to several of its own 'schools,' some soggy and idiosyncratic, with early forms bordering on the ritualistic. Churchmen (Faith) were not exactly mesmerized by Freud's 'quirky' discourses, in the 1920's. As for 'hilarious', may be not, but the sad soul probably leaves the couch momentarily happier. Mario responds: Hey, Eric, Kitem mhontai, re? I read what Santosh wrote and saw no mention of Psychiatry, which requires a practitioner to be a Board Certified M.D. does it not? Perhaps you are referring to Psychology. While I am aware that every psychiatric patient often becomes a virtual lifetime annuity for the practitioner, I think one could also say the same about physiatry and pain management and sometimes dermatology.
