Alternative Health Care

Michael D. Lockshin; Neil Smalheiser; Louis H. Philipson; Timothy B. Mccall; Edward J. Volpintesta; Faith T Fitzgerald

doi:10.1056/NEJM198403223101219

Alternative Health Care

Michael D. Lockshin, Neil Smalheiser, Louis H. Philipson, Timothy B. Mccall, Edward J. Volpintesta, Faith T Fitzgerald

General Medicine, Geriatrics, and Bioethics

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Abstract

To the Editor: In her article in the October 27 issue,¹ Dr. Fitzgerald raises important issues about the thinking of patients participating in alternative health care, but she does not touch on four other issues related to the topic. The first concerns a quantitative statement of the extent of the problem: recent studies on the frequency of alternative-health-care use among patients with arthritis attending university rheumatic-disease clinics found more than 90 percent of patients also using alternative treatments.² ^, ³ An estimate of additional patients not known to orthodox medicine is not available. A second issue is that third-party payers, appropriately.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	790-792
Number of pages	3
Journal	New England Journal of Medicine
Volume	310
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM198403223101219
State	Published - Mar 22 1984

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Lockshin, M. D., Smalheiser, N., Philipson, L. H., Mccall, T. B., Volpintesta, E. J., & Fitzgerald, F. T. (1984). Alternative Health Care. New England Journal of Medicine, 310(12), 790-792. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM198403223101219

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