The Perils of Complementary Alternative Medicine

More than 11,000 articles lauding alternative medicine appear in the PubMed database, but there are only a few articles describing the complications of such care. Two patients suffering from complications of alternative medicine were treated in our hospital: one patient developed necrotizing fasciit...

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Autores principales: Bayme, Michael J., Geftler, Alex, Netz, Uri, Kirshtein, Boris, Glazer, Yair, Atias, Shahar, Perry, Zvi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Rambam Health Care Campus 2014
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Controversies in Clinical Practice
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4128590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25120919
http://dx.doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10153
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author Bayme, Michael J.
Geftler, Alex
Netz, Uri
Kirshtein, Boris
Glazer, Yair
Atias, Shahar
Perry, Zvi
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description More than 11,000 articles lauding alternative medicine appear in the PubMed database, but there are only a few articles describing the complications of such care. Two patients suffering from complications of alternative medicine were treated in our hospital: one patient developed necrotizing fasciitis after acupuncture, and the second developed an epidural hematoma after chiropractic manipulation. These complications serve as a clarion call to the Israeli Health Ministry, as well as to health ministries around the world, to include complementary medicine under its inspection and legislative authority.
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spelling pubmed-41285902014-08-12 The Perils of Complementary Alternative Medicine Bayme, Michael J. Geftler, Alex Netz, Uri Kirshtein, Boris Glazer, Yair Atias, Shahar Perry, Zvi Rambam Maimonides Med J Controversies in Clinical Practice More than 11,000 articles lauding alternative medicine appear in the PubMed database, but there are only a few articles describing the complications of such care. Two patients suffering from complications of alternative medicine were treated in our hospital: one patient developed necrotizing fasciitis after acupuncture, and the second developed an epidural hematoma after chiropractic manipulation. These complications serve as a clarion call to the Israeli Health Ministry, as well as to health ministries around the world, to include complementary medicine under its inspection and legislative authority. Rambam Health Care Campus 2014-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4128590/ /pubmed/25120919 http://dx.doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10153 Text en Copyright: © 2014 Bayme MJ, et al. This is an open-access article. All its content, except where otherwise noted, is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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