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You Can Be Both Conventional and Nonconventional-Reply
Liora Schachter, MD;
ichael A. Weingarten, BM, BCh;
Ernesto E. Kahan, MD, MPH
Sackler School of Medicine Tel Aviv University Tel Hashomer, Israel
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(6):488-489.
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In reply
Littge's and Abend's letters are precisely the kind of debate we had hoped to stimulate. It remains for the reader to judge the logic and evidence of the conflicting medical systems.
By not distinguishing between the various types of nonconventional therapies, we tried to examine the overall attitude that Israeli physicians have toward nonconventional therapies as a whole. The attitude that Israeli and other European primary care physicians show definitely emphasizes the need for a more critical evaluation of the various forms of nonconventional therapies.
Our views on the direction that research on nonconventional therapies should take are clear: first, objective evaluations should be developed using scientific methods; second, studies on physicians' knowledge and attitudes toward such subjects as the special American traditions of osteopathy and chiropractic should be extended in the light of local conditions.
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