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Conventional medicine is the practice of medicine taught in medical schools and treatments that meet the requirements of the generally accepted standard of care in a particular country. Nonmainstream treatments have been called complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM (Massoumi 2017a). Integrative medicine, the more current concept, is the integration of conventional medicine with complementary treatments that have an evidence base. A nationwide government survey released in February 2015 reported that approximately 33% of U.S. adults ages 18 years and older use some form of CAM (Clarke et al. 2015). In 2007, 83 million adults spent $33.9 billion out of pocket on CAM in the United States (National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health 2018).
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