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Medical Schools Teaching
Complementary Procedures
I guess under the heading, “If you can not beat them join them,”
comes an article from the January 17, 2000 AMA News that reports that more
than 75 US and Canadian medical schools are now teaching what the article
called “complementary procedures.” In the article, Dr. Brian Bouch the
medical director of Consensus Health, at Emeryville, states that he thinks
the public is so far ahead of physicians on this issue that many medical
doctors risk becoming irrelevant. Dr. Bouch goes on to defend medical
incursion into these other areas by saying, “With one-third of the
population having tried complementary and alternative medicine, more than
70% of insurers now offer at least one alternative treatment as a defined
or discounted benefit.” The focus of the article and the many experts
they quote all state that the public is already using the non-medical
procedures, therefore the medical professionals should be involved with
them. The question that begs to be asked is how much of this new interest
is financially motivated?
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