conventional medicine
Americannoun
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When conventional medicine fails to offer clear answers, especially for vague or chronic symptoms, people may turn to food as a form of self-treatment.
From Slate • May 25, 2025
Western conventional medicine did not understand, explore, or honor the power of feelings — psychologically and biologically, until the 1990’s.
From Salon • Jan. 20, 2025
Experts have told us failing to question these disproven claims is dangerous because it creates a distrust of conventional medicine.
From BBC • Dec. 13, 2024
The reality remained, however, that many afflictions cannot be entirely cured by conventional medicine, and many treatments, however successful, are often accompanied by burdensome side effects.
From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2022
How different is this from the unsatisfactory practice of conventional medicine!
From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by Alsaker, R. L.
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