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INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE: EAST MEETS WEST

INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE: EAST MEETS WEST. INTEGRATIVE PRIMARY CARE BRIDGES TRADITIONAL & NON-TRADITIONAL SERVICES. “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. Integrative Medicine.

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INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE: EAST MEETS WEST

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  1. INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE:EAST MEETS WEST

  2. INTEGRATIVE PRIMARY CARE BRIDGESTRADITIONAL&NON-TRADITIONALSERVICES

  3. “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

  4. Integrative Medicine Neither rejects conventional medicine nor uncritically accepts alternative practices

  5. Conventional Medicine Best for: INFECTIOUS DISEASE SURGICAL CARE

  6. Alternative/Complementary Medicine Best for: Chronic Illness Stress Related Disease Prevention of Illness

  7. COMPLEMENTARY PRACTICE INCLUDES: ACUPUNCTURE YOGA TAI CHI MEDITATION MASSAGE FAMILY CONSTELLATION SEMINARS FLORIDA COUNCIL OF SPIRITUALITY, MEDICINE & HEALING

  8. 42% use unconventional therapies • 629 million visits – up 47% • $27 billion spent – up 100% • 75% still did not inform their physician JAMA 1998:280;1569-75

  9. 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

  10. 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

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