A. You’re right. Unfortunately, many well-established and very successful Integrative Medicine treatments are not deemed mainstream or “standard of care,” and hence are not covered by insurance. This, in my opinion, is a disgrace, because doctors and their patients should be the final arbiters of what works and what doesn’t work for a certain patient with a given illness.
Concerning Integrative Medicine: Allow me to explain the word for those of you who are unfamiliar with it. Within the Integrative Medicine paradigm, our single goal is always “better clinical outcomes” for our patients. To do so, we know that we must frequently investigate modalities that are not part of the allopathic establishment’s “Standard of Care.” In caring for our patients, we are interested in any approach that is both safe and has demonstrated clinical efficacy. This includes the critical use of current drugs in “repurposed” treatments for illnesses for which they were not designed. Long-established drugs, such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, have saved millions of lives in the case of CV19.
True scientists who “follow the science,” as well as Integrative Medicine specialists, recognize that human physiology is incomprehensibly complicated… It is a magnificent symphony of systems that collaborate for the common goal of generating life. As a result, Integrative Medicine is a collection of strategies and modalities that work together to support/generate optimal health. As a result, practicing Integrative Medicine necessitates a strict commitment to continual research for each patient, because no two people are alike. This is both academically and spiritually hard, but it is well worth every ounce of effort as we uncover and establish methods that result in greater therapeutic outcomes for our patients. CV19 is merely the most recent and clear illustration of this chasm between our method and the traditional establishment, which still insists, despite mountains of data, that there is no early treatment for CV19.