FPs not being abandoned for alternate types of therapy CMAJ 1997;156:973 © 1997 Canadian Medical Association More patients may be investigating alternative-medicine therapies, but more than 85% of them continue to consult their family physician, a 2-year study at the University of Toronto has concluded. When researchers from the U of T developed a profile of how 300 people used different types of health care, they found that 93% of chiropractic patients, 88% of acupuncture patients, 95% of naturopathy patients and 87% of Reiki clients also sought health care from a family physician. (Reiki concentrates primarily on emotional healing.) "Physicians have worried that their patients will abandon them for alternative medicine, but this is not the case," the U of T stated in a news release. Send a letter to the editor responding to this article Envoyez une lettre à la rédaction au sujet de cet article | CMAJ April 1, 1997 (vol 156, no 7) / JAMC le 1er avril 1997 (vol 156, no 7) |