Watch your language. Some terms that are frequently confused: pain vs. suffering, disease vs. illness, cure vs. healing. Science-based medicine focuses on diseases; alternative medicine focuses on illness: that explains a lot.
Words matter. Improving the precision of our language should improve the clarity of our thinking.Science-based medicine treats diseases, CAM treats illnesses. (This explains a lot!)Healing is an elastic term that may not mean what you thought it did.Suffering is not the same as pain. Each can occur without the other.
