by Don Ingwerson In the latest vlog from The Mother Church, Eric Bashor asks whether integrative medicine is ready for “prime time” and shares information about integrative medicine written by Dr. Andrew Weil and published on CNN. Dr. Weil quotes extensively from the healthcare documentary, Escape Fire, in his article. Featured article © GLOW IMAGES Models used for illustrative purposes.
by Don Ingwerson Article first published in Blogcritics One nearly invisible aspect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act discussion is the role that an integrated approach to medical modalities will play in the implementation of the health insurance mandate beginning January 2014. As one who follows this discussion, I’m encouraged by the prevalent positive reports on the effectiveness
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by Don Ingwerson Recently I attended RAND’s Policy Forum in Santa Monica to listen to a discussion on Integrative Health Care and Medicine. I was very interested in the support that the three medical doctors gave to alternative and complementary medicines (which include prayer and meditation). They were convinced that there would be a much greater use of these differing
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by Don Ingwerson Article first published in Blogcritics. This question is not new, but it’s taking on a new look. It’s no secret that the public is using prayer for health purposes and that prayer has been reported as the most used integrative medicine. However, this is not so much about whether prayer should be used, but how. What can
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by Don Ingwerson Article first published in Blogcritics Recently my wife and I ended a Disneyland visit without our usual family around us – and I can’t remember that ever happening before. Because we weren’t preoccupied with entertaining the kids, we could relax and observe everyone. Even though there were crushing shoulder-to-shoulder crowds, I noticed something interesting. There was no
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