• DOI:10.7326/0003-4819-127-1-199707010-00010
Corpus ID: 23351104

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}
}

D. Eisenberg

Published 1997

Medicine

Annals of Internal Medicine

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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