Talk to Your Doctor: About Integrative Medicine

11/03/21 • 47 min

The Cancer Pod: Integrative Medicine Talk

It's the first pod inspired by our listeners' requests! Talk to Your Doctor is a series of episodes about, well, how to talk to your doctor! Whether it's about integrative medicine or questions you might not have thought of, we'll try and cover it in this pod.
In the first episode of this series, we answer the question "how do I ask my doctor about integrative medicine?" According to the National Institute for Health, integrative oncology is a patient-centered, evidence-informed field that utilizes mind-body practices, lifestyle modifications, and/or natural products interwoven with conventional cancer treatment. It prioritizes safety and best available evidence to offer appropriate interventions alongside conventional care. That's literally their definition.
Patients are often reluctant to talk to their doctors about using therapies that might be outside of standard of care, and doctors don't always know how to advise their patients on the use of these therapies. As more patients are becoming aware of the potential benefits of these treatments, keeping an open dialog with their providers is key.
Talk to YOUR doctor if you think integrative medicine is for you.
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The Cancer Pod: Integrative Medicine Talk - Talk to Your Doctor: About Integrative Medicine

Transcript

Leah: 0:26
Hi, Tina.

Tina: 0:27
Hi, Leah. How are you doing?

Leah: 0:29
I'm doing great. Thanks for asking.

Tina: 0:32
Good, good, good. So, what's on our docket today?

Leah: 0:34
Oh, well, this is kind of fun. This is our first show that was a request. I had put up a little question to the folks out there, you know, what do you want to hear? What do you want us to t