Advising Patients Who Seek Alternative Medical Therapies
@article{Eisenberg1997AdvisingPW, title={Advising Patients Who Seek Alternative Medical Therapies}, author={D. Eisenberg}, journal={Annals of Internal Medicine}, year={1997}, volume={127}, pages={61-69} }
Alternative therapies can be defined as medical interventions that are neither taught widely in U.S. medical schools nor generally available in U.S. hospitals [1]. Examples include chiropractic, acupuncture, massage, and homeopathy. In 1993, my colleagues and I reported that an estimated 60 million Americans used alternative medical therapies in 1990 at an estimated cost of $13.7 billion, that the estimated number of annual visits to providers of alternative medicine (425 million) exceeded the… CONTINUE READING
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