What Will Happen to Alternative Medicine?
Bye-bye, bee pollen. Sayonara, St. John's wort. Hasta la vista, homeopathic remedies. Alternative medicine -- at least as we practice it today -- is going out the window in the next century. We'll see a return to good, old-fashioned, stick-out-your-tongue-
while-I-put-this-cold-stethescope-
on-your-chest diagnostics. How we pay for it -- that's a more difficult question.
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