title: Frontier medicine: the future and integrative medicine.
abstract: Vigorous and prolonged effort is required to gain true mastery of the healing arts. Conventional and complementary medicine have complementary strengths and weaknesses. Like the yin and yang of traditional Chinese medicine, they naturally flow into one another by a process of induction, creating balance. Integrative medicine is the frontier; it is the future. If we are to progress beyond our current understanding and ability to heal, we must work with theoretic models that allow us and our perception to operate "outside the box." For some, this understanding is intuitive. It is through cooperative and collaborative efforts of intuitively adept and technologically adept minds that we can integrate and advance our understanding; increase our ability to predict, prevent, and diagnose disease; and expand our therapeutic options.
authors.affiliation: El Cajon Valley Veterinary Hospital, El Cajon California, USA. crossdvm@aol.com
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ross
authors.forename: K K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Haussler
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Kenney
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Marks
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Bertone
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Henneman
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: May
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001294:Attitude to Health; D000529:Complementary Therapies / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends / Q000662:veterinary*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005544:Forecasting; D006736:Horses; D006801:Humans; D012449:Safety; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014730:Veterinary Medicine / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*