| Some physicians have a hard time in identifying | | | | are not, however, very willing to pay for alternative |
| alternative medicine treatments because they were | | | | medicine treatments because they are not |
| not taught them at medical school. They must learn | | | | considered to be acceptable forms of treatment for |
| to rely on the text from various researchers who | | | | any type of illness that would be covered under |
| have made it their life work to study such things as | | | | regular medical billing purposes. |
| the therapeutic alternative medicine treatments that | | | | Patients must rely on their own sources of funding to |
| come from herbs, and those that come from various | | | | pay for the alternative medicine treatments that are |
| massages. | | | | used for weeks or months at a time. Identifying |
| When identifying alternative medicine treatments, | | | | alternative medicine treatments that they can afford |
| physicians will typically use a hunch, and try some | | | | is the hard part for many patients that are under the |
| treatments that go right alongside what they have | | | | care of qualified but unrecognized licensed caregivers. |
| learned but are not clearly written in their medical | | | | Most of the alternative medicine patients must deal |
| journals. They might find that acupuncture | | | | with the standards of practice of an unregulated |
| treatments will help patients with chronic pain, so | | | | industry, and the patient is open to all sorts of |
| they give them the usual pain killers to help ease the | | | | unregulated pricing structures at any time during the |
| pain a bit, and make a recommendation that they | | | | course of treatment. If all alternative medicine |
| find a healer who specializes in applying acupuncture | | | | treatments were covered under the auspices of the |
| therapies to various parts of the body. | | | | same standards of care received in many hospitals, |
| The physicians in India are much more likely to begin | | | | then it would keep most of the alternative medicine |
| identifying alternative medicine treatments when they | | | | caregivers from being able to charge what they |
| see their patients for the first time. Some alternative | | | | want to for the services that they provide. |
| medicine is common practice among foreign doctors | | | | Until then, alternative care patients are at the mercy |
| and is considered quite acceptable as a form of | | | | of an unregulated industry and have no choice but to |
| treatment for a variety of illnesses. They will perform | | | | pay the high prices that are being charged for |
| the customary office exams to get a complete | | | | alternative medicine treatments. Some patients are |
| review of all symptoms before they begin the | | | | very hesitant on identifying alternative medicine |
| alternative medicine therapies. | | | | treatments as any type of complementary care |
| Many insurance companies are very good in | | | | anyone because their treatment on the humane level |
| identifying alternative medicine treatments that are | | | | is far from complimentary. |
| billed to patients through regular billing practices. They | | | | |