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Homeopathy much less popular

Monday 26 October 2009

Some 17% of Dutch doctors prescribed some sort of homeopathic medicine to their patients last year, compared with 40% 20 years ago, the Telegraaf reported at the weekend.

Doctors are most likely to prescribe homeopathic medicines because their patients ask for them rather than because they believe in homeopathy, the research, quoted in medical magazine Medisch Contact show.

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