A re-look at alternate medicine and integrated healthcare was the theme of the 10th Arunachalam Endowment Lecture, organised as part of the Indo-UK Workshop on Elder Care-2012, held here on Sunday.
Dr Rema Raghu, clinical director of TRIMED, a city-based integrated health centre, in her lecture, presented case studies of two patients suffering from cognitive disorders and how integrated healthcare, + involving Ayurveda, had resulted in considerable improvement in them.
In her presentation titled ‘Comprehensive care for the elder: an integrative and multi-disciplinary approach’, she stressed that comprehensive multi-disciplinary assesments are useful. “The integrated medical approach combines the best of all forms of medicine, resulting in the best results,” she noted.
Earlier, Dr S K Rajan, advisor to the Tamil Nadu MGR University, in his address said that doctors should look to increasing quality of lives of their patients. “The cure, in addition to alleviating pain, is important,” he said.
Making a pitch for alternative medicine and criticising those blindly aping its Western forms, Dr Rajan, former dean of Stanley Medical College, said that while in 1998 Parliament had sought to know whether the alternative system of medicine could be introduced in curricula, it was met with uproar. “We need to treat the patient for what he needs, and not what we know,” he added.
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