Then she leaned the wrong way in bed and fractured a bone, and was in even more pain. But we couldn't up her dose of narcotics. He called in an acupuncturist. Not every case is so dramatic, he said. But the doctor was so impressed that he went to school himself to become an acupuncturist.
Spectrum doctors use conventional medical methods, such as antibiotics.
But they also recommend herbal remedies and alternative treatments for their patients. Alternative treatments are not a replacement for medicine. For instance, he said, if a patient comes in with a sinus infection he will usually send that person home with an herbal remedy and a prescription for antibiotics. I tell them to call me if it doesn't get better in a few days. But using this technique, about 40 percent of the time we can avoid using antibiotics.