The Indian Health Service was created within the Department of Health and Human Services to integrate traditional Indian healing with Western biomedicine.

Reasons for the shortage of primary care physicians in regions designated as Health Professional Shortage Areas and steps that medical schools and state and federal policymakers can take to alleviate the shortage.

Even if a placebo is safe, it should not be employed as a way of mollifying patients or glossing over underlying causes of illness.

Unlike the medical doctor’s “unlimited” license, CAM practitioners have “limited” licensure that carves out a designated scope of practice.