Integrative Medicine
Here are some common questions:
What is integrative medicine ?
Integrative Medicine is more than just complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and more than simply adding CAM to conventional medical practices. In a larger sense, Integrative Medicine is an approach to patients and patient care.
It is the medicine that reaffirms the importance of the relationship between practitioner and patient. You are treated as a person, you are involved in entire healing process. It highly depends on your coorperation. If you do not believe it, it won't work.
Integrative Medicine is healing oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person (body, mind, and spirit), including all aspects of lifestyle. It emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and makes use of all appropriate therapies, both conventional and alternative.
Integrative Medicine is the practice of medicine that reaffirms the importance of the relationship between practitioner and patient, focuses on the whole person, is informed by evidence, and makes use of all appropriate therapeutic approaches, healthcare professionals and disciplines to achieve optimal health and healing.
What is the difference ?
The major difference between integrative and conventional medicine can be sumed up by Sir William Osler (1849-1919) "The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
Why integrative medicine ?
Every disease and illness is warning sign to human there are something wrong. What and why, is the goal integrative medicine try to find out before treating the symptom. Because it is source which cause the illness, not other way around. Found the source, the illness is easy to cure. Otherwise, sympton can be vanished for a short time but come back in different forms.
Does insurance company accept the treatment ?
Unfortunately, only a handful of insurance company approve or encourage integrative medicine treatment, many of them still refuse the coverage. It is your body, why let insurance company control it ?
