Quality in Complementary and Alternative Medicine by David C. Kailin

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October 07, 2006: The AMA has recently embarked on a program that threatens to limit the practices of non-physician CAM providers. The AMA Scope of Practice partnership will be scrutinizing CAM training standards, among other actions. It is not hard to imagine federal regulatory agencies following the AMA's lead and putting the heat on CAM providers. I, for one, am glad to have this text by the farsighted David Kailin around, providing the ammunition needed to forestall the attack. QCAM provides detailed guidance to the federal regulations that frame all health servcies and may prove to be the most effective deterrent to a campaign that appears designed to remove non-physician CAM providers, leaving the CAM market to physicians. But deterrence can only be effective if CAM providers promptly take heed, read this text, and follow it closely. Kailin demonstrates that combining regulatory compliance with clinical integrity is not arduous. Moreover, doing so serves the interests of the CAM community of practitioners, educators and clients.