Luby KP, Rubin G; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 1996 Jul 7-12; 11: 22 (abstract no. Mo.B.302).
Rubin G
Issue: The delivery of health care to patients with HIV is continually evolving, driven predominantly by our own patients as they pursue alternatives to allopathic medicine. This has necessitated openmindedness on the part of physicians and commitment to cooperation on the part of complementary therapists to ensure comprehensive health care for patients with HIV. Project: We are members of a group medical practice which consists of three primary care physicians and one naturopath, created two years ago to meet the diverse needs of our mutual patients. The establishing premise of the practice was that naturopathic medicine would provide preventative health care and allopathic medicine would provide acute care intervention. Results: The practice has grown considerably in the past two years, and has seen patients with lowered incidence of drug-induced side effects and gastrointestinal diseases. Patients express increased physical and mental energy, providing higher quality of life. Lessons Learned: Patients have expressed feelings that their needs are being listened to in this multidisciplinary approach to their long term health management. Both naturopathic and allopathic medical approaches have complementary modalitites to offer in both short and long term HIV care. Licensed health care professionals from different health care paradigms can work collaboratively to better meet the needs of the complex health issues affecting people living with HIV.
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Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Cooperative Behavior
- Delivery of Health Care
- Family Practice
- HIV Infections
- HIV Seropositivity
- Health Personnel
- Health Services Needs and Demand
- Humans
- Incidence
- Medicine
- Models, Biological
- Naturopathy
- Primary Health Care
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UI: 102216814
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