One problem is finding a "competent medically trained professional". How many medically trained professionals are aware that there is no research that substantiates the established medical wisdom that there is a link between high levels of cholesterol and CHD? Or that a high cholesterol and saturated fat diet increases your chances of a heart attack?
In fact, the research shows the opposite. Low levels of cholesterol dramatically increase your chance of a stroke, and even raise total mortality.
Or, if you have a problem, like a meningioma (brain tumour) on the base of the skull, do your own research. You will soon find out that you know more than the supposed "specialist" who is advising you to do THIS. Then you go to another "specialist" who says to do THAT. A third "specialist" will also recommend THIS, but don't go to the first specialist because he doesn't do it properly. Then ask all three specialists about the five, ten and twenty year survival rates from what they are proposing, and they don't have a clue. Ask them about how previous patients are doing, and only the first "specialist" cares enough to keep in contact with his patients. The third one says that, of the nine that he's operated on, he knows that one of them is leading a relatively independent life (!!! what on earth does that mean!!). Specialists two and three say you must have the treatment immediately (well, OK, have the baby first, but then come straight in), one says no particular rush.
So, who is competent? The conventional brain surgeon, the radiologist, or the radical brain surgeon?
