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"We have to face facts: Vitamins & minerals are the foundation of our health" says one MD, an internist who asked me to keep his name "out if it". It being the controversy within standard medicine over the use of alternative protocols to drugs & surgery in order to prevent, abate, or otherwise heal their patients. He (who I will call Dr Ernie) is one of a growing number of physicians who utilize alternative protocols such as acupuncture, meditation, and "nutrition" (Including supplements) to help their patients when "standard medical protocols fail to produce the desired result". And like most physicians who do use them, when asked to comment on their alternative protocols, they usually want to remain anonymous. Why? Fear of reprisal. From Whom?

Their peers for one. "My peers continually ask me if I am still using the voodoo approach to medicine", says Dr Ernie. "They persist despite the clinical successes I've had using alternatives, especially nutrition & supplements". There is also more than one confirmed story of licensed physicians who lose their right to issue insurance claims because they engage in atypical protocols.

Loss of insurance, especially mal practice is another fear of loss for physicians if they engage in alternatives to drugs & surgery. "What if I openly prescribe an alternative that does not work and then that patient claims to have been harmed by the alternative method? My mal practice might not cover me and who needs that"? This comment comes from a physician from south Florida who went to the point of opening an alternative clinic side to his practice and he brought in his insurance company to inspect and approve of his alternative procedures so the insurance would cover him in case of a mal practice suit. Yet, this same physician did not want me to use his name in my reports. Meanwhile,

Virtually all of the practitioners of alternatives I spoke with agree, when it comes to pharmaceutical companies, "it's a matter of money and politics".