ÜDS-Sağlık 2005-1 Soru=58

One point emphasized by the author of the passage is that the people who seek alternative therapy ----.

Health care professionals may quickly dismiss
alternative therapies as ineffective and perhaps
even dangerous, but their clients think otherwise.
In a survey of over 1,500 people, 1 out of every 3
had used at least one alternative therapy in the
past year for a variety of medical complaints from
anxiety and headaches to cancer and tumours.
Visits to alternative therapies outnumbered visits
to primary care physicians. Interestingly, those
who seek alternative therapies seem to do so not
so much because they are dissatisfied with
conventional medicine, but because they find
these alternatives more in line with their beliefs
about health and life. Most often, people use
alternative therapies in addition to, rather than in
place of, conventional therapies. Only a few of the
people surveyed saw an alternative therapist
without also seeing a physician; all of those with
life-threatening conditions such as cancer,
diabetes or lung problems who used alternative
therapies saw a medical doctor as well. In fact, it
seems that most people seek alternative therapies
for nonserious medical conditions or health
promotion. They simply want to feel better, and
access is easy.