The health care debate . . .

Earlier this year the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences held a Summit on Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public

Click here for a video from the summit

From the article Washington Lovefest by Woodson Merrell, M.D.

Integrative medicine is an approach to medical practice that emphasizes the partnership between doctor and patient, and utilizes an evidence basis to determine the best of indigenous medicine, complementary/alternative practices and conventional therapies individualized to each person’s needs. Integrative doctors (of which there are now hundreds in the U.S. and twice as many being trained by integrative programs at more than 30 top medical schools) look at the whole person, not just the disease, and we consider the emotional, spiritual, dietary, environmental and lifestyle influences that affect health and healing.

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Resources including a PowerPoint presentation by Ellen Stovall, National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
-Hippocrates 460-377 B.C.