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Integrative Medicine
Bringing Medicine Back to Its Roots
Ralph Snyderman, MD;
Andrew T. Weil, MD
Arch Intern Med. 2002;162:395-397.
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"The chassis is broken, and the wheels are coming off." This is a sad
but accurate view of the American health care system that is shared by many
physicians, nurses, hospital administrators, insurers, and payors and, most
importantly, by the public. Even the prestigious Institute of Medicine has
recently recognized serious dysfunctions in health care delivery.1 Ironically, just when decades of biomedical research
are beginning to pay miraculous dividends, public confidence in the medical
establishment is eroding. The fundamental relationship between patient and
physician is in danger of disintegrating as a rapidly widening gap grows between
what many conventional health care providers deliver and what the public wants
and needs.
Physicians have always played the role of caregivers. In the Western
world, the Hippocratic oath and the oath of Maimonides helped define the unique
obligation of the physician to the patient and the . . . [Full Text of this Article]
From Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC (Dr Snyderman), and
the Program in Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine,
Tucson (Dr Weil).
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