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What is Integrative Medicine?

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Integrative Medicine is healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person, including all aspects of lifestyle.  It emphasizes the therapeutic relationship between practitioner and patient, is informed by evidence, and makes use of all appropriate therapies.


​The Defining Principles of Integrative Medicine
  1. Patient and practitioner are partners in the healing process.
  2. All factors that influence health, wellness, and disease are taken into consideration, including mind, spirit, and community, as well as the body.
  3. Appropriate use of both conventional and alternative methods facilitates the body's innate healing response.
  4. Effective interventions that are natural and less invasive should be used whenever possible.
  5. Integrative medicine neither rejects conventional medicine nor accepts alternative therapies uncritically.
  6. Good medicine is based in good science.  It is inquiry-driven and open to new paradigms.
  7. Alongside the concept of treatment, the broader concepts of health promotion and the prevention of illness are paramount.


                                                                                  From The Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona

Heather Krantz, M.D.
Mailing Address:  P.O. Box 6913                               Office Address:  1012 SW Emkay Drive
                               Bend, OR 97708                                                       Bend, OR 97702
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