What is complementary medicine?

This week's BMJ sees the beginning of a new 12 part series of the ABC of Complementary Medicine. This first issue looks at what is actually meant by the term �complementary medicine'; how this area of medicine developed; how practitioners are trained and regulated and how they might approach the treatment of patients.

Contact:

Dr Catherine Zollman, General Practitioner, Bristol Email: [email protected]

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Dr Andrew Vickers, formerly Research Council for Complementary Medicine, London. From October: Integrative Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York Email: [email protected]