Does Your Doctor Care If You CAM?

Maybe your doctor will not care if you are using complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), but you should. Not informing your doctor ca...





Maybe your doctor will not care if you
are using complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), but you
should. Not informing your doctor can cause health threatening and
even life threatening situations if you keep this a secret. There
are too many cases of patients saying that these medications are
natural and therefore my doctor has no need to know, and they end up
in the hospital or dead

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