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5. Alternative medicine can work but not for every medical condition

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If the child had type 2 diabetes, then alternative meds should be explored to see if his insulin dosage could be decreased and possibly eliminated. But that would require monitoring over time, not simply stopping insulin. If that child had type 1 diabetes, then it was neglectful, insane to treat him with alternative meds only.

Two other things jump out for me. I understand people choosing alternative meds when the traditional medicine is very invasive, etc. I am thinking in particular of chemotherapy and rational people could choose alternative medicine than chemotherapy. Insulin is not invasive the way that chemotherapy is and I just don't understand why loving parents would make that choice for their child.

The second thing that jumps out is that this was a child and someone else was making decisions for him. How could they do that to the child? Why didn't someone get a guardian appointed for him so that he could get appropriate care?