Integrative Medicine
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Today, people are often questioning the methods of traditional medicine, but are not quite ready to abandon them in favor of alternative or complementary treatments. Some doctors and hospitals are delving into the benefits of alternative and complementary medicine, combining some of the techniques used with traditional therapies. They are creating a field called integrative medicine or CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) (Integrative, 2004; Ward, 2003). Integrative medicine combines the best of traditional medicine with alternative medicine to maximize benefit for the patient (Integrative, 2004). The Integrative Medicine Institute evaluates, researches, and develops innovative integrated medical programs, implementing a research/evaluative database of all clients as they enter, through, and after they leave the program. This allows them to track the outcomes from different treatments. Their principle of healing is based on balance and wholeness. They believe that disease is a disturbance of the flow of life force through the body, and that the symptoms of illness are the body's attempts to restore b
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