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The importance of talking to your doctor about alternative medicines
Complementary medicines have that name just because they can be used as an adjunct to conventional medicine. Alternative medicines (such as treatments for certain plants or herbs, for example) may involve a risk when used in combination with traditional treatments.
It is for these reasons that communication between doctor and patient is crucial to know whether the patient is following complementary treatments (or possibly alternative) they can get to interact adversely with conventional treatments that the patient is doing.
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