Physicians and Healers — Unwitting Partners in Health Care

Abstract

Alternative medicine has long played an important part in the care of\npeople with health problems in this country. Although there has been no\ncomprehensive assessment of its use, there are good reasons to believe that\nalternative medicine has many adherents among all social classes. Most\nphysicians are unaware of its popularity, much less that many of their own\npatients are also being cared for by practitioners of alternative\nmedicine....