Legal and ethical issues in complementary medicine:  a United States perspective

Cohen, Michael H

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2004.tb06212.x

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The way forward involves not only preventing negligence and fraud, but also facilitating therapeutic exchanges between various healthcare providers and their patients

1 Series editors: A Bensoussan, G T Lewith
2 Harvard Medical School, Osher Institute, Boston, MA, USA.

Correspondence:

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