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Good Health Requires Traditional and Alternative Medicine
Undoubtedly, the United States has the most skilled traditional physicians for acute infections, trauma, and other emergencies. However, for degenerative diseases and chronic pain, the traditional system is woefully inadequate. Most of the 35 percent to 50 percent of patients who see alternative physicians have done so only after being told by their traditional physician that there is nothing more that can be done besides taking prescription drugs to control their symptoms. Traditional medicine employs drugs to suppress pain and inflammation. Physicians who integrate traditional and complementary therapies in their practice look at diseases as being...