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Originally Posted by Pinner
Doctors treat symptoms, usually with drugs, Naturopathic doctors treat the person, usually with lifestyle and dietary changes.
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If your doctor is just treating symptoms, then you should look for a new doctor; where the underlying causes are known modern medicine is geared towards treating the causes (e.g. treating a bacterial infection causing a high fever rather than just trying to lower the fever). Many "alternative" medicine practitioners, on the other hand, assume the same magical cause for all conditions and use the same treatment regardless of the problem.
A good doctor will give lifestyle and dietary advice and look at your overall health (mine does). Unfortunately there are some doctors that don't do a good job - especially the ones working in walk-in clinics who invariably seem to prescribe antibiotics for everything.