How to talk to your patients about alternative medicine
A woman told me she saw her physician recently and, when she told him all the things she was doing to help herself, naturally he told her he practices Western medicine and that he does not believe in that stuff.
Not a good conversation.
A number of research studies have found that one in three patients routinely use alternative treatments, but …



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