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Can They Be Integrated?

Arch Intern Med. 1998;158:2179-2181.

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THIS ISSUE of the ARCHIVES, as well as the 8 other specialty journals and JAMA, is dedicated to complementary, alternative, and integrated medicine. Complementary and alternative medicine are also termed unconventional medical therapy, which Eisenberg et al¹ have defined as "medical interventions that are not taught extensively at US medical schools or generally provided at US hospitals." Conventional medicine can then be defined as medical interventions that are taught extensively at US medical schools and generally provided at US hospitals.

Eisenberg and colleagues¹ noted that 34% (60 million) of the general public in the United States reported using 1 or more forms of unconventional medicine in 1990. The most frequently used unconventional modalities are various forms of relaxation therapy,^2-3 chiropractic,⁴ acupuncture,^5-6 massage therapy,⁷ and herbal/mineral/vitamin supplements.^8-10 The number of visits to unconventional providers in the United States in 1990 was greater than the number of visits to all primary . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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