I would like to add to what Mohd Hashim Shaari wrote in What doctors don't tell you . Western- trained doctors must accept the fact that there are many illnesses and diseases (most of them fatal or debilitating) that Western medicine cannot do anything much about.

In fact, I am greatly disappointed that our Western-trained doctors, in most cases, just refuse to have anything to do with alternate cures. Perhaps in their own way, they think that only what they have been trained in is completely correct, and if their training says there is no cure for certain diseases, then there must be no cure for such diseases.

There are so many debilitating diseases and other major ailments such as the very common hypertension that modern Western medicine is unable to cure. One has to take drugs for a lifetime, and the prices for such drugs can kill. Then there is the other common and life-threatening disease, diabetes. Doctors often warn their patients that while they are on the medication prescribed to them, they are not to take other medication, traditional or otherwise, for fear of the medication/drugs clashing and causing other serious side effects.

Then there is the problem of high cholesterol in patients. Drugs are prescribed to reduce the cholesterol level. But as every patient suffering from high cholesterol knows, such drugs cause other serious side-effects affecting the heart, the liver and loss of short-term memory. With so many side effects, how can such drugs be called medicine?

Another ailment that modern medicine cannot cure is cancer. Year in and year out, patients spend thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands of ringgit, overseas in renowned hospitals in America but only to end up dying. Yet do we see doctors and hospitals lowering their charges for patients knowing full well that their patients will die anyway?

The world is finally awakening to the fact that the giant pharmaceutical companies are controlling the medical world, telling them what drugs to use for which ailment though most of the time these drugs only control the symptoms, not cure the patients.

They find such an arrangement much more profitable than finding a cure for the disease. They would rather the patient take a particular medication for life (such as in hypertension and diabetes) than to concentrate on finding a cure for such diseases.