Former brother:
Alternatives are often good as preventive medicine, but when you get hit with the disease you better go to someone with a lot o real formal education.
Also as greedawn said, lots of JW's buy into this stuff of doctors actually letting people die rather than using some sort of secret cure. I have an in-law like that. She buys into any alternative medicine cure, and everyone has cured her of a stomach ailment that she continues to have to this day after 20 years of many, many cures!!!