Alternative Medicine: Is it Effective? While some medical technicians and doctors search for the cures for such life-altering diseases as leukemia, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, and asthma, others claim to have derived a safe, effective treatment through alternative medication. Alternative medicine, an unrelated group of non-orthodox therapeutic practices, which have no satisfactory scientific explanation for their effectives (Collinge xix.) Determining how alternative medicine should be incorporated with modern medicine has recently become an issue in which …showed first 75 words of 1532 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1532 total…research and beneficial information. The integration of alternative medicine and modern medicine provides a hope and positive outlook for future medicine. Thomas Edison once said, "The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease" (Marti xii.) Alternative medicine has allowed the patient to become the doctor, and the doctor to become the teacher.