Blackwell Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Fast Facts for Medical Practice (Complimentary and Alternative Medicine) - Softcover

 
9780632045839: Blackwell Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Fast Facts for Medical Practice (Complimentary and Alternative Medicine)

Synopsis

As complementary medicine grows in popularity, and your patients come to you with questions about integrative techniques and alternative therapies, will you be ready to answer them?


Blackwell Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Fast Facts for Medical Practice offers a multi–disciplinary view of the ways in which complementary and alternative medical techniques impact traditional treatments. Designed with the practitioner in mind, this pocket resource is ideal for quick reference at the point of care, when faced with a patient interested in integrative medicine.


While research on complementary and alternative medicine is ongoing, patients are seeking information now. If medical professionals are not ready to address patient questions, who will patients turn to? Be ready with Blackwell Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Fast Facts for Medical Practice.

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From the Back Cover

Educate yourself and your patients on the most common alternative therapies with Blackwell Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Fast Facts for Medical Practice. With patients now spending billions of dollars each year using CAM therapies, health care professionals need this multi–disciplinary view of the critical ways these modalities impact other treatments.

Experts in their respective fields provide current and objective information on:


  • 15 of the most common therapies your patients may be using

  • How to effectively communicate with patients for safe and effective care using alternative treatments

  • Regulatory practice of CAM for practitioners

  • The politics and economics of CAM

While research on CAM is ongoing, your patients are seeking information now. If medical professionals are not ready to address patient questions, to whom will patients turn? Be ready with Blackwell Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Fast Facts for Medical Practice!

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