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The Tao of the Healer - Sorting Out “Holistic”, “Alternative”, “Complementary,” and “Integrative”

THE NATURAL DOCTOR 

The Tao of the Healer - Sorting Out “Holistic”, “Alternative”, “Complementary,” and “Integrative”

By David Gersten, MD
Amino Acid Power and Dr. G’s Health Digest

Becoming an American Medicine Man, an M.D., is a long journey fraught with confusion. Thirty years ago a first year medical student did not know that s/he was being trained to practice “Allopathic” or “Conventional” Medicine - only one of several medical systems. He never dreamed that one day he’d be faced with entirely new definitions of medicine, including “Alternative,” Complementary, “Holistic,” and “Integrative.”

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