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...seventh year running, Associate Professor of Medicine David M. Eisenberg '76, who became interested in alternative medicine as a young doctor on a trip to China, has brought medical doctors and pharmacists together with massage therapists, acupuncturists and naturopaths like Hummel...
...Eisenberg, who graduated from HMS, directs the school's newest division and is best known for his landmark surveys on the use of non-traditional therapies in the United States. His is also the director of this week's conference...
...Seven years ago, most clinicians in traditional care would have said complementary medicine is irrelevant," Eisenberg said in his opening remarks. But now, he said, physicians are bowing to market forces and the realization that some techniques that were considered useless may have real health benefits...
...Eisenberg's studies revealed a marked increase in both dollars spent on and number of visits to non-traditional practitioners in the 1990s. The results, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in 1998, showed that visits to non-traditional practitioners increased nearly 50% from 1990 to 1997. In both years, visits to non-traditional practitioners outnumbered visits to primary care medical doctors...
...Daniel Eisenberg...