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Complementary and alternative medicine, medical liability and the proper standard of care
Vera Lúcia Raposo
Source PublicationComplementary Therapies in Clinical Practice
ISSN1744-3881
2019-05-01
Abstract

Complementary and alternative medicine raises growing interests among population. Patients have the right to reject conventional medicine and instead look for a different treatment, even if sometimes is a placebo. However, currently this risks being a reckless decision, since the way complementary and alternative medicine is being provided leaves space for fraudulent practices, misleading information, wrong diagnosis, improper treatments and thus severe patient's injuries. This paper will discuss the standard of care to be demanded from providers of complementary and alternative medicine. The paper will sustain that it should be bound to a CAM specific standard of care, expose the reasons for this solution and describe the consequences derived therein. It will conclude that the solution to protect CAM users does not rely in the extension of conventional standard of care to CAM practitioners, but in more regulation and more control for CAM practices and CAM practitioners.

KeywordComplementary And Alternative Medicine Conventional Medicine Standard Of Care Medical Liability Patient's Safety
Language英語English
DOI10.1016/j.ctcp.2019.02.009
URLView the original
Volume35
Pages183-188
WOS IDWOS:000465122100024
WOS SubjectIntegrative & Complementary Medicine
WOS Research AreaIntegrative & Complementary Medicine
Indexed BySCIE ; SSCI
Scopus ID2-s2.0-85062155890
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Document TypeReview article
CollectionFaculty of Law
Corresponding AuthorVera Lúcia Raposo
AffiliationFaculty of Law, University of Macau, Macau, China
First Author AffilicationFaculty of Law
Corresponding Author AffilicationFaculty of Law
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Vera Lúcia Raposo. Complementary and alternative medicine, medical liability and the proper standard of care[J]. Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, 2019, 35, 183-188.
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