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In longer consultations patients have the opportunity to provide more information about their complaint and take on board information provided by the practitioners (Johannessen 1996). Qualitative studies have revealed that patients respond to being treated as an equal and desire a more participative relation ship with their practitioner (Hewer 1983). Such a possibility derives from the fact that most alternative medicine proposes a form of holism, which rejects the treatment of symptoms in isolation but seeks to understand them in the context of a person’s total health profile (their spiritual and emotional responses as well as their experience of their social situation).
These frameworks—such as a previous experience or the health of other family members—are not generally drawn upon by the biomedical doctor. In contrast, alternative medical practitioners usually spend a long time questioning the patients about their family, their lifestyle and environment (indeed questions can be so probing and seemingly irrelevant that new patients can feel perturbed about their 42 A NEW MEDICAL PLURALISM? relevance). Helman puts great emphasis on the sense making potential of alternative medicine, especially that which it gives to suffering: Many patients have an unfulfilled sense of wanting to be connected once again, to some wider context, to locate their suffering in a wider framework—even to somehow contain themselves within the many cycles of nature… Complementary practitioners often help people make sense of their situation in a more meaningful way than does medicine, often utilising more traditional modes of dealing with misfortune… many of them utilise traditional cultural beliefs in order to explain to the patient why they have been affected by that particular illness at that particular time.
By deciding to use alternative medicine it appears that the patient may have become a consumer. Clearly, the expansion of the alternative medical sector produces a wider market of services from which a person can choose and while this continues to be concentrated in the private sector it is likely that the advice of the general practitioner will not be as important as the consumer’s own decision. Paying for the services also places the consumer in a similar position to the patient of bedside medicine (Jewson 1976), practitioners are dependant upon the patronage of their users for their livelihood and consequently the power of the consumer is greater.