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Integrative Medicine as a Vital Component of Patient Care
Adopting integrative medicine in the United States of America has been in progress advocating for holistic treatment. Integrative medicine involves treating patients through spiritual, environmental, emotional, and mental simultaneously with physical therapy (Gannotta et al., 2018). Thus, some of the patient’s natural aspects will be considered to be treating the illness leading to a holistic approach that entails beliefs leading to body and mind healing. This holistic approach’s success depends on forming a functional partnership between the patient and the medical professionals. Some of the techniques involved in integrative medicine are holistic messages, mind-body therapies, acupuncture, and nutritional advisement applying the conventional methodology. Integrative medicine benefits are symptom improvement during the disease, increased patient satisfaction, and positive outcomes toward medication among patients. The approach results in a whole body and mind treatment among the patients enhancing patients’ positive response to medication. However, the approach has few drawbacks, such as increasing hospital costs and resistance from community members and health facilities. To effectively implement the approach, we must overcome hostility and other related barriers. Integrative medicine has been becoming popular as it advocates that true healing requires nurturing the body and the soul.
I selected this article since the United States of America is a country of diverse cultures and high population with the government working toward fostering good health for the citizens. It is evident that using integrative medicine will result in holistic treatment since the patent will be physically, emotionally, and mentally treated. Therefore the body and the mind will be nurtured to respond to healing, making the patient respond positively to medication.
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Gannotta, R., Malik, S., Chan, A. Y., Urgun, K., Hsu, F., & Vadera, S. (2018). Integrative medicine as a vital component of patient care. Cureus, 10(8). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6173273/