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INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
DAVID Y. WONG, MD
Integrative Approach
Bio-Identical Hormone Therapy
Spa Medicine & Wellness
Energy Healing
Basic Principles of Integrative Medicine
- A partnership between the patient and practitioner during the healing process
- Appropriate use of conventional and alternative methods to facilitate the body's innate healing response
- Consideration of all factors that influence health, wellness and disease, including mind, spirit and community as well as body
- A philosophy that neither rejects conventional medicine nor accepts alternative medicine uncritically
- Recognition that good medicine should be based in good science, inquiry driven and open to new paradigms
- Use of natural, less invasive interventions whenever possible
- The broader concepts of promotion of health and the prevention of illness as well as the treatment of disease
- Practitioners as models of health and healing, committed to the process of self-exploration and self-development
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