Should medical students be taught alternative medicine?

Doctors should be able to discuss the non-evidence based therapies that patients want to try, says Graeme Catto. But Nick Cork and Gareth Williams say that students risk being indoctrinated and should be taught only about interventions that have been shown to be safe and effective

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Veröffentlicht in:	BMJ (Online) 2014-03, Vol.348 (mar28 8), p.g2417-g2417
Hauptverfasser:	Catto, Graeme, Cork, Nick, Williams, Gareth
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Alternative medicine Back pain Cancer therapies Cardiovascular disease Complementary Therapies - education Education, Medical HEAD TO HEAD Health education Humans Lifestyles Meditation Parkinson's disease Patients Physician-Patient Relations Physicians Students Telomerase Treatment Outcome United Kingdom
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Zusammenfassung:	Doctors should be able to discuss the non-evidence based therapies that patients want to try, says Graeme Catto. But Nick Cork and Gareth Williams say that students risk being indoctrinated and should be taught only about interventions that have been shown to be safe and effective
ISSN:	0959-8138 1756-1833 1756-1833
DOI:	10.1136/bmj.g2417