"We skipped the "specialists" and went to a homoeopath. Seventeen years on she's doing fine."
While I am very glad your wife if doing well, I would hope that anyone viewing this thread in a similar situation does not read too much into it. Homeopathy is nothing more than a placebo.
Instead of linking evidence from research, which you admittedly distrust, here is a point of view from a well known skeptic commentator.