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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

No, it is not okay to give patients a treatment with no proved medical benefits

This is about as typical an "integrative medicine" picture as I could find. Why do all "integrative medicine" websites seem to have pictures of attractive people silhouetted against a sunset doing yoga? Is it a rule or something?

Et tu, Scientific American? A few of you seem to know what will catch my attention and push my buttons, because over the past couple of days a few of you sent me an article published in Scientific America by an internal medicine resident named Allison Bond entitled Sometimes It’s Okay to Give Patients a […]