complementary medicine why bother for a whole term?
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Complementary MedicineComplementary Medicine
Why bother for a whole term?
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Complementary or AlternativeComplementary or Alternative
• Which is more acceptable to who?
• Needs complementing?
• Need for alternative?
• Whose need?
• What can we learn from these practitioners?
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One image !One image !
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Or Another?Or Another?
Caring
Holistic
No iatrogenic problems?
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Why Bother?Why Bother?
“Scientific medicine is making big advances in drugs, technology, and genetics, yet more and more patients use complementary therapies. EBM dominates our discourse, yet health professionals increasingly refer to and practice complementary therapies that have little scientific evidence of efficacy.”
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•What is the meaning behind these paradoxes?
•What can we learn that will usefully inform our practice of orthodox medicine?
•Why do people go to complementary practitioners?
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Why Bother?Why Bother?
• What skills are they using?
• What skills could we borrow?
• What patient needs are they addressing?
• Are they needs we should seek to meet?
• Should we support them?
• Should we attack them?
• How should we respond?
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How Many?How Many?
• Over one thousand forms of complementary medicine have been indexed
• About 26 are “common”
• There are at least 40,000 therapists in the UK
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How Popular?How Popular?How Popular?How Popular?• Hard data lacking• Relies on survey data• Geographical
variations• Cultural variations• Socio-economic
variation
• Ever used 14-30%• Last year 10-14%• Ever seen practitioner
33%• World wide ever seen
practitioner 20-75%
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How Popular?How Popular?• 45% of GPs endorse
or recommend the use of complementary medicine
• 21% of GPs refer patients to complementary practitioners
• 10% of GPs treat patients with complementary medicine themselves
• US (1990) made 425 m. Visits to comp. Practitioners and 388 m. Visits to family physicians
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How Popular?How Popular?
• Phenomenal growth
• UK consumption of homeopathic remedies growing at 20% per year
• Number of UK practitioners has doubled every 5 years for the last 15 years
• Growth is occurring right across the west
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Which Therapy?Which Therapy?Which Therapy?Which Therapy?1984 survey• Acupuncture• Chiropractic• Herbal
medicine• Homeopathy• Osteopathy
1993 survey• Acupuncture• Chiropractic• Herbal
medicine• Homeopathy• Osteopathy
1989 survey
• Acupuncture
• Chiropractic
• Faith healing
• Homeopathy
• Osteopathy
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Who?Who?• 40% of women
• 27% of men
• 33% of people >35years
• 26% of people <35years
• More popular in south and west of UK
• 38% of people use more than one form of complementary medicine at the same time
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What Sort of Problem?What Sort of Problem?
• Musculoskeletal - 88%
• Psychological - 3%
• Respiratory - 2%
• Neurological - 2%
• Other - 4%
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EvidenceEvidence“Conventional”• Counselling• Ultrasound• Bed rest• Chiropody• Many operations
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EvidenceEvidence“Complementary”• 4000 articles in
medline• St johns wort• Manipulative therapies• Eczema
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In SummaryIn Summary
• Very popular and growing
• Are we failing?
• What can we gain?
• Should we end any divisions and just go for “good medicine” - anything that works?
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Aims of the TermAims of the Term
• Can be divided into the obvious and the hidden
• There are, I now hope many reasons why we should bother
• So that you know where I am coming from my hidden and overt aims are as follows:
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Aims of the TermAims of the TermOvert• Learn about
complementary practitioners
• Be able to better advise our patients
• Learn applicable skills
Covert• Improve critical
appraisal skills• Improve EBM skills• Improve presentation
skills• Foster self worth
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And Some ObjectivesAnd Some Objectives
• Natural
• Unproved
• Irrational
• Harmless
• Holistic
• Unregulated
• Alternative
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Starting PointsStarting Points
www.quackwatch.com/
Maybe a obvious slant but fascinating !
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Starting PointsStarting Points
The Which? Guide to Complementary Medicine
Which ? Books
Barbara Rowlands
1997
An excellent fairly balanced introduction
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Starting PointsStarting Points
ABC of Complementary medicine
Starting BMJ 319 11/9/99 Page 693
But shouldn’t be all you use!
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Starting PointsStarting Points
Medline - 4,000 references to complementary medicine
EMBase
Many books
Internet
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The Good
The badAnd
And the ugly
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