Amin M, Hughes J, Timon C, Kinsella J
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Cancer, St. James's Hospital, James's St, Dublin 8.
Ir Med J. 2008 Mar;101(3):82-4.
Most human beings will do almost anything to prolong their existence or to relieve the suffering of disease. Others will do anything to exploit these desires by selling what they claim to be pain killing remedies or life prolongation nostrums. We present three cases of head and neck cancer patients; two used complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) prior to presenting to our service and the third declined conventional treatment to seek CAM instead. We discuss here the diagnosis, the time delay between CAM and commencement of conventional treatment, and the outcome in each case. Our aim is to define Quacks and to heighten public awareness of the potential harm they can cause.
大多数人会想尽一切办法延长自己的生命或减轻疾病的痛苦。而另一些人则会利用这些欲望，兜售他们所谓的止痛疗法或延年益寿的秘方。我们介绍三例头颈癌患者的情况；其中两例在前来我们科室就诊之前使用过补充替代医学（CAM），第三例拒绝了传统治疗，转而寻求补充替代医学。我们在此讨论每例患者的诊断情况、补充替代医学与开始传统治疗之间的时间延迟以及治疗结果。我们的目的是界定庸医，并提高公众对他们可能造成的潜在危害的认识。
