The "therapeutic footprint" of medical, complementary and alternative therapies and a doctor's duty of care

Hassed, Craig S; Kotsirilos, Vicki; Pirotta, Marie; Sali, Avni

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb00868.x

Topics

Complementary therapies

Neoplasms

Health services administration

Pharmaceutical preparations

To the Editor: Sanderson et al provide an interesting viewpoint about how the community, including medical practitioners, have embraced complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).1

1 Department of General Practice, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC.
2 Whole Health Medical Centre, Melbourne, VIC.
3 Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC.
4 National Institute of Integrative Medicine, Melbourne, VIC.

Correspondence: vicki.k@optusnet.com.au

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