INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE: EAST MEETS WEST

INTEGRATIVE PRIMARY CARE BRIDGES TRADITIONAL & NON-TRADITIONAL

SERVICES

“It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what

sort of disease a patient has.”

Sir William Osler

Neither rejects conventional

medicine nor uncritically

accepts alternative

practices

Integrative Medicine

Conventional Medicine Best for:

INFECTIOUS DISEASE

SURGICAL CARE

Alternative/Complementary Medicine Alternative/Complementary Medicine Best for: Best for:

Chronic IllnessChronic Illness

Stress Related Stress Related DiseaseDisease

Prevention of IllnessPrevention of Illness

ACUPUNCTURE

YOGA

TAI CHI

MEDITATION

MASSAGE

FAMILY CONSTELLATION SEMINARS

FLORIDA COUNCIL OF SPIRITUALITY, MEDICINE & HEALING

COMPLEMENTARY PRACTICE INCLUDES:

• 42% use unconventional therapies

• 629 million visits – up 47%

• $27 billion spent – up 100%

• 75% still did not inform theirphysician

JAMA 1998:280;1569-75

1992 - $2 million

1997 - $12 Million

1998 - $20 million

1999 - $50 million 14 centers

2000 - $68 million – call for education grants

2001 - $87 million

National Center for CAM (NCCAM)

NIH Office of Alternative Medicine

Harvard University of Arizona

UCSF University of Maryland

Stanford University of Massachusetts

Duke University of Minnesota

Georgetown Albert Einstein - Yeshiva

Jefferson

MEDICAL SCHOOLS THAT OFFER INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE