Showing posts with label complimentari medicine. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

CLOSING THE CHASM BETWEEN ALTERNATIVE AND MAINSTREAM MEDICINE

THE IMPORTANCE OF Dr. SUNITA VOHRA






Dr. Sunita Vohra is the 2013 recipient of the Dr. Rogers Prize for Excellence in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (THE CANADIAN PRESS/University of Alberta-Michael Holly)

"Alternative medicine" was once the domain of new-aged mystics, in shadowy back rooms. It was to be approached with skepticism ---  perhaps as a last resort.

But over the past few decades, things have changed.

Acupuncture and  echinacia are in common use.

And what used to be a shadowy unknown has been pulled into the light of scientific medical research. One of the doctors leading this change is a Canadian --- Dr. Sunita Vohra.

She has become a leader in both complementary and alternative medicine, and conventional medicine. She is working to bring the two communities closer together.