INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE: EAST MEETS WEST

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INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
EAST MEETS WEST
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INTEGRATIVE PRIMARY CARE BRIDGES TRADITIONAL
NON-TRADITIONAL SERVICES
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It is much more important to know what sort of
patient has a disease than what sort of disease a
patient has. Sir William Osler
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Integrative Medicine
Neither rejects conventional medicine nor
uncritically accepts alternative practices
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Conventional Medicine Best for
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
SURGICAL CARE
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Alternative/Complementary Medicine
Best for
Chronic Illness Stress Related Disease Prevention
of Illness
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COMPLEMENTARY PRACTICE INCLUDES
ACUPUNCTURE YOGA TAI CHI MEDITATION MASSAGE FAMILY
CONSTELLATION SEMINARS FLORIDA COUNCIL OF
SPIRITUALITY, MEDICINE HEALING
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• 42 use unconventional therapies
• 629 million visits up 47
• 27 billion spent up 100
• 75 still did not inform their physician

JAMA 19982801569-75
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NIH Office of Alternative Medicine
1992 - 2 million 1997 - 12 Million 1998 -
20 million
National Center for CAM (NCCAM)
1999 - 50 million 14 centers 2000 - 68
million call for education grants 2001 -
87 million
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MEDICAL SCHOOLS THAT OFFER INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
Harvard University of Arizona UCSF University
of Maryland Stanford University of
Massachusetts Duke University of
Minnesota Georgetown Albert Einstein -
Yeshiva Jefferson