Thanks and kudos to Dr Sherman for his excellent, practical, and balanced approach1 to a complex and multifaceted health care world. Medicine is neither an exact science nor a whimsical, fly-by-night practice.
With each and every one of my complete physical examinations, my last questions in the long list are about exercise, nutrition, and spirituality. I order my questions that way so that subsequent discussion and teaching can begin with these 3 topics fresh in the patient’s mind and at the top of my priority list.
Common sense, intuition, and complementary approaches are as much a part of the art of medicine as evidence-based medicine is. Exclusion of any of the above is to the detriment of our patients.
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