ArticleIntegrative medicine (Encinitas, Calif.)2016
Can We Say "Cure"?
Article in Integrative medicine (Encinitas, Calif.), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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Who cites it
4 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Implementing Twaddle Triad to Reach a New Framework for an Integrative and Innovative Medicine.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2024Review
- Health Literacy of the Inland Population in Mitigation Phase 3.2 of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Portugal: A Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study.Portuguese journal of public health · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
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Abstract
Most of the commonly prescribed conventional drugs treat only symptoms, not the underlying causes of a patient's disease. This logically leads to a perception that much of modern medicine is about management of chronic disease and prevention of more serious sequelae-not actual cures. However, most health care professionals are attracted to medicine with the mission of curing patients leading to the cognitive discord that eventually leads them to integrative/functional medicine. Though use of the term
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