- February 9, 2010
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Differences between CAM practice and primary care practice
by Orac in Respectful Insolence
If there is one aspect of "complementary and alternative" medicine (CAM) that can puzzle advocates of science-based medicine, it's why, given how nonsensical much of it is given that some of it actually goes against the laws of physics (think homeopathy or distance healing), CAM is so popular. Obviously one reason is that there are conditions for which SBM does not have any "magic bullet" treatments. Diabetes, heart disease, other chronic illnesses, SBM can manage them quite well, but it can't c........ Read more »
Heiligers, P., de Groot, J., Koster, D., & van Dulmen, S. (2010) Diagnoses and visit length in complementary and mainstream medicine. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 10(1), 3. DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-10-3
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