HOLISTIC MEDICINE LAW
The legal protection and promotion of Holistic, Integrative, Natural, Corrective,Complementary and Alternative Medicine
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine homepage.
“I'm angry that in the land of freedom, Americans are still denied access to dozens of effective cancer treatments that are available in other countries around the world (…) I'm angry that the Food and Drug Administration denies people's rights to choose their own treatments (…) I'm angry that the Federal Government has failed to test a single alternative cancer treatment, despite years of efforts (…) I'm angry about the Mafia-like control of the cancer field by the drug industry, through their domination of virtually every single cancer research and treatment institution (…) I'm angry that the "scientific" studies of new drugs, funded by huge companies, almost always turn in favorable results and are approved by the FDA”. Dr Ralph W. Moss, Director of Cancer decisions, formerly from the Sloan Kettering cancer institute
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THE NECESSITY TO BETTER PROTECTND PROMOTE HOLISTIC MEDICINE
Holistic and integrative medicine practitioners and health-care professionals provide innovative and often effective approaches to illness and chronic diseases. However, by definition, these approaches deviate from mainstream standards and dogma.
Thus, holistic health practitioners (as well as parents) may not always be well received by the patient's entourge, let alone the physician's medical board and the courts.
Moreover, maintream (allopathic medicine) being officially the third cause of premature and avoidable deaths in the United States, patients are turning more and more to a responsible, scientifically sound and socially-friendly medicine, albeit not that well recognized by American legal and medical mainstream practice.
THE CHALLENGE
We therefore need experienced holistic health and law experts who are knowledgeable about integrative medicine and the law and who can assist holistic health practitioners and patients in the meeting of their security and legal needs.
"We see no reason why a patient should not be allowed to make an informed decision to go outside currently approved medical methods in search of an unconventional treatment," the Appeals Court wrote. "While a patient should be encouraged to exercise care for his own safety, we believe that an informed decision to avoid surgery and conventional chemotherapy is within the patient’s right to determine what shall be done with his own body." (Second Circuit US Court of Appeals, in the landmark “Schneider v Revici case dated 1987)