COMPLIMENTARY and ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
Ellen Hughes M.D.
This article has brought to our attention the importance and popularity of alternative medicine in our lives today. The author gives us an idea of the number of people utilizing alternative medicine and the risks of doing so, as well as the cost.
The author starts with a definition of alternative medicine and its gaining popularity today. This type of medicine is becoming more popular today because of the theory of treatment of the whole body instead of just what is felt at the time. This is not because the patients are fed-up with traditional western medicine, but that it is geared more towards changing values. The health insurance companies are only recently offering these options as approved avenues of medical treatment. They are requiring, in some cases, that the insured person(s) pay a higher premium for complimentary and alternative medicine. The author goes on to talk about the recent growth of the use of......
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