COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE

'Complementary Medicine'
This article is part of the CAM series of articles.
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Complementary medicine refers to a group of therapeutic and diagnostic disciplines that exist largely outside the institutions where conventional health care is taught and provided.^[1]
As its name suggests, complementary medicine differs from alternative medicine in that it does not offer a competing (or 'alternative') viewpoint to that based on science-based knowledge. Even so, the two are commonly categorised together as complementary and alternative medicine (or CAM for short).

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1. ABC of complementary medicine. What is complementary medicine?, Zollman C, Vickers A., , , Brit Med J, 1999