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1/ Describe how a health care provider should respond to a request from a patient for advice about using a specific complimentary therapy for a chronic problem
2/ Your classmate comments, “That compassion stuff is stupid. It’s all I can do to complete the assignment. I don’t have time to go around feeling love for my patients”. How would you respond?
1) thanqu for the question.
As a helath care provider ,should understand what purpose of this treatment and explain to the patient and their family about complementary therapies
complementary therapy is treatment that are used along with standard medical treatment but are not considered to be standard treatment., and increase general sense of health and well being.
eg: using accupuncture to help lessen some side effects of cancer treatment.
common complementary therapies are:
complementary theraoies are energy based therapies that require belief in the phenomenon opf vital flow of energy in the body
it used together with conventional medicine. for eg: using massage therapy along with precription medicine to treat anxiety.