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You Can Be Both Conventional and Nonconventional-Reply

Liora Schachter, MD; ichael A. Weingarten, BM, BCh; Ernesto E. Kahan, MD, MPH
Sackler School of Medicine Tel Aviv University Tel Hashomer, Israel

Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(6):488-489.

Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

In reply

Littge's and Abend's letters are precisely the kind of debate we had hoped to stimulate. It remains for the reader to judge the logic and evidence of the conflicting medical systems.

By not distinguishing between the various types of nonconventional therapies, we tried to examine the overall attitude that Israeli physicians have toward nonconventional therapies as a whole. The attitude that Israeli and other European primary care physicians show definitely emphasizes the need for a more critical evaluation of the various forms of nonconventional therapies.

Our views on the direction that research on nonconventional therapies should take are clear: first, objective evaluations should be developed using scientific methods; second, studies on physicians' knowledge and attitudes toward such subjects as the special American traditions of osteopathy and chiropractic should be extended in the light of local conditions. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]






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