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Are You Ready for Integrative Medicine?

Philippine Daily Inquirer

| April 11, 2010 | COPYRIGHT 2001 Philippine Daily Inquirer Inc. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Leti Boniol

YOU have a condition that keeps recurring for months or years, and youve been to several specialists who have failed to cure you.

None of the medicines that these specialists have prescribed worked despite their brands and high costs, but have instead caused certain side effects that you werent warned about.

To make matters worse, these specialists have this bad habit of making you wait for eight hours for a consultation, while entertaining those svelte high-heeled med reps carrying drug brands that you later see scribbled on your prescription.

And because you want to rid yourself of this pestering health condition and those expensive but ineffective wonder drugs, you open yourself up to other types of healing.

There are medical doctors who have embraced healing modalities that are not limited to simply prescribing those wonder drugs that simply target specific afflicted areas of the body. Their approach is Integrative Medicine (IM), which …

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