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Arch Dermatol. 1998;134:1473-1476.

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"TO CURE sometimes/To relieve often/To comfort always" is an ancient French proverb of great import. As medical doctors, we often forget that many of our patients' disorders cannot be fixed by drugs or procedures and that others¹ will not benefit from biopsy procedures, blood tests, or sophisticated diagnostic studies. Yet, many of us seem content to function as skilled technicians; and as the time we allot to our patients constricts, the office visit becomes a venue for interventions or the hurried writing of prescriptions, and only rarely the occasion for the dispensing of comfort and caring.

This is a personal view of why I believe that complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is so popular in the developed countries, where, in the last century, science has made such miraculous contributions to our ability to understand and impact disease states. Despite these achievements, there are more visits to CAM practitioners in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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