Integrated medicine by expanding medical frontiers: Need of the hour
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Dear Sir,
It is with great concern that I humbly submit the following observations drawn out of years of personal experience based on constant unbiased enquiry. Presently the form of medicine called ‘allopathy’ seems to be considered as the main way of healing by most of the general population. Being trained in this form of medicine which even today attracts the sharpest of brains to take up and master, I have over the years witnessed a variety of ailments that staunchly deny to respond to our brand of medicine, yet dissolve with ease with what we currently call as ‘alternative medicine.’ This is supported by scientific literature. It might be easy for us to shove it off as un-scientific or hearsay but having seen such cases, as a part of the integrated healing process, I am forced to make the conclusion that western medicine in its current form is far from complete.
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