Integrative Health Care
This solution involves having a hospital at then center of a community. Care would be provided to all who needed it regargless of ability to pay. In this particular post I will describe the care of physical ailments. In another post I will discuss my vision for mental health care. Both physical and mental health care are provided in different "wards," if you will but are part of the same facility. The practitioners in both will be people who are trained in a variety of healing/health care disciplines. Some of these disciplines are today considered to be "alternative" and not within the purview of medical practice as established by the American Medical Association (AMA)
NewTown University Hospital; School of Healing Arts and Sciences is a teaching hospital with accredited degree programs in health care, integrative medicine, chiropractic, naturopathy, various kinds of bodywork, and other healing modalities following the models of Bastyr University in Seattle, WA and Heartwood Institute in Garberville, CA. The hospital will train doctors regarding health care, with training in the anatomy and physiology of the body, in order to administer care to patients with the goal of restoration of function and the relief of suffering and dysfunction. There are various health arts and various licensed doctors within different disciplines. There are doctors of Chiropractic, Naturopathic , Homeopathic ,Traditional Chinese Medicine, Unani Medicine, Folk Medicine (including shamanic healers), Allopathic, Ayurvedic, and other systems. Implicit in the definition of the word is that the person identified as a doctor should have training in how to recognize and classify illnesses or types of dysfunctional states, as well as the appropriate treatment utilized by the practitioners of his or her health care system, as well as the treatments for this condition which may be offered by practitioners of other systems.
This is from: http://www.drjohnbaker.com/allopathic_medicine.htm