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function solely under MD direction and
prescription (eg. nurses, physical therapists, clinical pharmacists) |
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Accept patients without doctor's referrals, limited in what tasks they can perform, embrace medical definitions of illnesses and recognize physicians
as final arbiters of diagnoses and treatment |
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Accept patients independent of medical referrals
(though can refer patients to MDs) , Practice alternative theories of illness and healing, Remain in considerable opposition with
mainstream medicine. Osteopaths (?) and Chiropractors (?). Definitely naturopaths, herbalists, accupuncturists, and lay midwives |
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non-medical healers
that use methods not subject to empirical
verification
eg. Folk healers (curanderos), magical healers, faith healers, quacks |
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| have been raised to parallel status with MDs. Had to give up their initial opposition to drugs, offer a similar range of services as MDs. |
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Enjoy higher status & pay because they filed and won lawsuit against several medical
associations, among them AMA, AHA and AOA.
AMA was found guilty of criminal conspiracy.
Others settled out of court.
Went from marginal to limited |
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Was the first among alternative therapies to be subject of government financed research in the 1970s
Nearly 50 percent of workers with benefits received
coverage for acupuncture in 2004, compared with just over 30 percent two years ago |
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| The appearance of for-profit private hospitals |
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| cherry picking the most profitable patients |
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| illegal transferring of patients to municipal hospitals or city hospitals |
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| asking for insurance or payment up front |
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| problems with hospitals for dying patients |
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| painful treatments, poor cultural attitudes towards death, costly care, undignifying, lack of hospice availability |
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