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7 Steps to Growing Your Integrative Medicine Practice in 2015

I want to ring in the New Year by offering 7 core approaches for exponentially increasing patient volume, boosting product sales and reinvigorating the bottom line! 1. Rethink Your Business/Clinic Model Delivering comprehensive individualized care within a third-party insurance reimbursement model and achieving positive patient outcomes yet suffering economically? Treading the relentless conventional internal medicine hamster wheel to dutifully snuff out chronic disease symptoms within 10 minute office visits? Sound

Physician and Clinician Sales of Dietary Supplements: Legal View

Sales of dietary supplements by physicians, acupuncturists, chiropractors, and other licensed professionals raise thorny legal issues. This can be confusing, because on one hand, “everybody does it”—i.e., sales of dietary supplements by clinicians such as medical doctors, is widespread in the industry. On the other hand, the American Medical Association actively discourages the practice through its ethics opinions, which explicitly prohibit such conflicts of interest between care for the patient,