What are the factors on which integrative medicine focuses?

Dr. Robin H. Miller, MD

Internist

Integrative medicine focuses on the whole person. In doing so, conventional medicine and alternative and complimentary medicine are used to promote health and wellness.

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Integrative Medicine

The goals of integrative medicine are to partner with the patient, supporting wellness, supplementing clinical practice with traditional healing arts. Medicine in the US has grown up in a mode that treats disease. There is much less emphasis on wellness than on fixing a problem. Much traditional medicine, particularly from other cultures works to keep an individual well. Integrative medicine borrows from that tradition, and crafts plans around patient needs.

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