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The Family Physician of the Future
The landscape is shifting, but what does this mean for day-to-day practice? One doctor offers his colleagues a new road map.
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For years, the medical profession kept a cool distance from alternative medicine, which most doctors dismissed as the province of hippies and snake oil salesmen. Now that's changing, as David H. Freedman explains in a new Atlantic article. More and more physicians are recommending alternative therapies to their patients and many now say that acupuncture and meditation work better than expensive drugs at treating major chronic diseases.
Is alternative medicine really ready to claim a place in the mainstream? And what does the popularity of alternative treatments tell us about the weaknesses of modern medicine? To answer these questions, we asked seven leaders in the field as well as vocal skeptics to comment on Freedman's essay. We’ll be posting one response each day over the next couple of weeks.
The landscape is shifting, but what does this mean for day-to-day practice? One doctor offers his colleagues a new road map.
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A British doctor laments the rise of alternative medicine on American soil
Ancient health care systems might not be backed by modern research, but that doesn't mean they aren't scientific
A doctor who wants to stay true to the Hippocratic Oath must often turn to alternative medicine, not just convention
When it comes to our deadliest diseases, "alternative" approaches are measurably more effective than drugs or surgery
Whether a treatment is conventional or alternative, the medical profession should be doing what works
The author responds to Steven Salzberg's argument about the dangers of accepting alternative medicine
Alternative medicine is unscientific at best and dangerous at worst
The author replies to the directors of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Taxpayers are funding studies on acupuncture, yoga, and other forms of alternative medicine—and for good reason
Josephine Briggs, M.D.
Jack Killen, M.D.
Steven Salzberg, Ph.D.
Andrew Weil, M.D.
Dean Ornish, M.D.
Mimi Guarneri, M.D.
Vasant Lad, M.A.Sc.
David Colquhoun, Ph.D., FRS
Reid Blackwelder, M.D.