According to the NCCAM, “a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine.”
What is Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)?
100
CBO stands for...
What is Congressional Budget Office
100
A traditional or orthodox physician who is a medical doctor
What is an allopathic physician?
100
A Harvard trained physician that used speeches, television appearances, and news articles to spread his idea of integrative medicine
What is Andrew Weil
100
The body's capacity to heal itself.
What is vitalism?
200
• These types of physicians may be allopathic (MD) or osteopathic (DO)
• Also referred to as traditional medicine
What is Orthodox Medicine and Orthodox Physicians?
200
Shopaholic, hypersexuality, gambling, alcoholism, obesity, drug taking
What are addictions that require medical treatment
200
The year 1910
What is when the Flexner Report was published
200
An Indian doctor that has authored more than 50 books and more than 100 audio, visual, and CD-ROM titles, and became well-known in his field
What is Deepak Chopra
200
A main theme and belief in the concept of vitalism. It is the enhancement or balancing of life forces.
What is qi or psychic energy?
300
A person who buys and uses health-related goods
What is a health consumer?
300
$2.5 trillion in the year 2009
What is money spent on health care in the US
300
Things considered the crown jewels of health care in the U.S.
What are major medical centers
300
Oncology specialized doctor who taught his patients to use meditation, positive imagery, and humor to help further their progress
What is Bernard Siegel
300
To use the mind, body, and spirit to control disease, promote a sense of well-being, and enhance the quality of life.
What is healing?
400
Examples include faith healing, reflexology, yoga, hypnosis, biofeedback, and deep breathing exercises.
What are unhealthy habits that increase health care costs
400
Professional negligence by act or omission by a health care provider in which care provided deviates from accepted standards of practice in the medical community and causes injury or death
What is medical malpractice
400
This cardiology specialized doctor studied the effects of transcendental medication with his colleague Robert Wallace
What is Herbert Benson
400
Primitive tribes considered this to be the work of evil spirits.
What is illness?
500
• Dissatisfaction with conventional treatment
• Empowerment to make one’s own health care decisions
• Compatibility with users’ own values and spiritual beliefs regarding the nature of their illness
What are reasons to seek alternative health care?
500
It costs this much money per day to maintain a person in the ICU
What is $10,000
500
True or False: The right to continuity of health care is available to patients
What is true
500
This MD was the first U.S. medical exchange student to go to the People's Republic of China, learning the language and their Eastern medicine
What is David Eisenberg
500
This barrier is due to the fact that CAM is not covered by insurance companies.