[Selected issues regarding implementing alternative medicine with special reference to the patients with laryngological problems].
The review of the literature and some media data referring to chosen methods of unconventional treatment, its history of the development in Poland and around the world has been made in this paper (homeopathy, waxing of ears, bio-energy therapy) and the increasing interest among the treated patients has been shown. It is essential that the doctors (including laryngologists) while carrying out the interview should take the unconventional way of treatment of patients into consideration. This may explain the registering of patients to appropriate treatment in the advanced state of illness, which is particularly unprofitable in cancer-afflicted states.
Glińska
Agnieszka
A
Department of Otolaryngology and Oncologic Laryngology, Pomeranian Medical University of Szczecin, Poland. glinski.maciek@wp.pl
Sieczka
Jarosław
J
Tarnowska
Czesława
C
Maj
Piotr
P
D000529:Complementary Therapies / Q000379:methods*; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000379:methods; D006705:Homeopathy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007818:Laryngeal Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011044:Poland; D011788:Quality of Life; D019124:Therapeutic Touch