A Commentary on Integrative Medicine in the the Canadian Family Physician asks:
Is integrative medicine the future of family medicine?
Integrative Medicine takes into account all aspects of lifestyle, including nutrition, physical activity, stress, sleep, spirituality, and occupational functioning.
I also have some questions:
- How will the articulation of this new vision integrate all the aspects of a patient’s lifestyle into the busy workload of a primary care physician?
- Looking at all the aspects of lifestyle with a patient will take more time but how can this be done in the context of a primary care physician shortage?
- Should doctors perform tasks such as nutrition counseling that can be done by nutritionists?
- Is the human body really innately self-healing?
- Is the popularity of alternative medicine a rejection of evidence or science-based medicine?
- What is Woo ?
Who has time for family medicine? Canadian Family Physician; Jan 2008.
…to fully satisfy the US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations, a physician would have to spend 1773 hours per year, or 7.4 hours per working day, providing preventive services
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