should you go pre med school before doing alternative medicine?

Shelley Stevens: There's no point - that's training in real medicine and real science. Alternative medicine is called that for a reason - it doesn't work. If it worked, it wouldn't be alternative. You'd be wasting your time on a scam and very likely wasting someone else's time, money, health, and maybe even life as a result. If my aunt had gone to a real doctor instead of an alternative medicine practitioner when she got cancer, she'd be alive right now. But she didn't. Someone with no real medical training convinced her to put her money and faith in him, and she's dead as a result. Don't kill anyone needlessly this way - either study real medicine or don't bother at all....Show more

Coleen Carignan: Depends on what kind of alternative medicine you are talking about.Your question seems very vague to me.Why do you want to chose Alternative Medicine instead of studying for a doctor?Did you have good results with that? Do you have intuitive insight that indeed ! some kind of alternative medicine is leading to really solving a problem?Just some questions you may ask yourself before you go on....Show more

Monica Voltin: Well if you want to become a research doctor or look into the more "alternative" limbs of mainstream medicine (osteopathy for example, even chiropractic in some cases), then yes I think pre-med is a good idea.For most other branches of "alternative" medicine (Homeopathy, crystal healing, theraputic touch, iridology, etc etc etc) there is no schooling needed as they are not proven to do ANYTHING, and they're not protected terms, nor are they allowed to practice medicine....Show more

Gaston Edgcomb: Biology, anatomy or body structure, chemistry/healthy chemistry, physics (for kinesiology), nutriiton/well being. Any kind of bodily remedy, therapeutic massage (however want licensing), even operating in a well being meals retailer.

Travis Colomb: "Alternative Medicine" (including Chiropraxy) is crackpot q! uackery. Don't waste a decent "pre-med" education on altmed.If! you like a bit of the bone-cracking mumbo-jumbo but with some (mostly) scientific integrity, attend Osteopathy School instead.