Is it ethical for medical practitioners to prescribe alternative and complementary treatments that may lack an evidence base?

Is it ethical for medical practitioners to prescribe alternative and complementary treatments that may lack an evidence base? — No

Published:2011-07 Issue:2 Volume:195 Page:79-79
ISSN:0025-729X
Container-title:Medical Journal of Australia
language:en
Short-container-title:Medical Journal of Australia

Author:

Dwyer John M¹

Affiliation:

1. University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

Publisher

AMPCo

Subject

General Medicine

Link

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2011.tb03212.x

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