Taking the mathematical standing I so much like, the distribution of doctors is roughly a Gaussian, meaning that there are a few doctors who are real good and a few who are real bad but mostly they are just so-so. By the way this applies to many other areas as well (see here for another example). Now simplistically, what this means is that most doctors know well that Tylenol is for pain, antibiotic is for bacterial infection and for everything else there is (no not a Mastercard, although you will need it too), there is surgery.
I guess there is little wrong with a 6 month old kid who is having a fever and an observed redness in the ear (a.k.a. "ear infection") to have an antibiotic. A little problem is that it may not help. One, because the the infection could be viral (i.e. coming from a virus) and then antibiotic is just plainly not appliable. But even if infection is bacterial, the bacteria could be or could have gotten resistant to the particular kind of antibiotic the kid is taking. In this latter case, you are getting into an atibiotic spiral, where the antibiotic becomes stronger with every next infection. At a point close to the tip of this spiral, we were sent to see an ENT specialist, who acted like a butcher:"Aha! 4 infections in a row -- ear tubes (surgery)" was his immediate prescription.
Again, I am not saying that this is or this is not justified, I just want to present an alternative, the ultimate choice is upon you. We didn't want the surgery (we had a couple before we couldn't avoid and additionally the risk of complications such as loss of hearing didn't seem justified just yet) and there is where Dr. Randall Neustaedter came to light. To say the least, I was skeptical. However, I saw the result -- the next ear infection was gone without antibiotic but with the help of homeopathy and Chinese herbs. Same with the next and the next. And in the last 2 years, we had a couple of ear infections, which were really minor compared to what it was like before, when we used to get them every time we got a runny nose.
So it worked. One could claim that when he is taking a pill (which is advertised as a unique medicine but in reality is a placebo), there could come cure from a positive psychological effect of the pill-taking itself, whether or not it was really medicine or placebo doesn't matter. But if a 4 year old is taking it, I'd say it is more than convincing and objective. Also importantly, the office visit was a strong factor in the positive outcome, as by how the kid reacted to a disease, the doctor could determine what was the best treatment.
The natural homepathic treatment definitely requires more sacrifice from the parents, both financially (as most insurances don't cover these visits at all or even if they do, it would be treated as "out-of-network") and physcially, but the benefits are obvious, you are not just removing the symptoms without caring much about how the body will react to it but removing the cause having the whole organism in mind.
Finally, I also got to see the same doctor with a sore throat. I knew for a fact that the kind I had would last for a week or so and throughout I would feel absolutely miserable. With his medicine, I was back to normal in 1.5 days which was like a miracle that never happened before.
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