Patients Whose Doctor Knows Complementary Medicine Have Lower Costs & Live Longer

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Patients Whose Doctor Knows Complementary Medicine Have Lower Costs &

Live Longer

A small fraction of general practitioners (GPs) in the Netherlands has

completed additional training in complementary medicine after obtaining

their conventional medical degree. Using a data set from a health

insurer, this paper documents that patients whose GP has additional

training in anthroposophic medicine, homeopathy, or acupuncture have

substantially lower health care costs and lower mortality rates. The

lower costs result from fewer hospital stays and fewer prescription

drugs. Since the differences remain once we control for neighborhood

specific fixed effects at a highly detailed level, the lower costs and

longer lives are unlikely to be related to differences in socio-economic

status. Possible explanations are selection (e.g. people with a low taste

for medical interventions might be more likely to choose CAM) and better

practices (e.g. less overtreatment, more focus on preventive and curative

health promotion) by GPs with knowledge of compleme ntary medicine.

Kooreman & Baars, Tilburg University

Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

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Patients Whose Doctor Knows Complementary Medicine Have Lower Costs &

Live Longer

A small fraction of general practitioners (GPs) in the Netherlands has

completed additional training in complementary medicine after obtaining

their conventional medical degree. Using a data set from a health

insurer, this paper documents that patients whose GP has additional

training in anthroposophic medicine, homeopathy, or acupuncture have

substantially lower health care costs and lower mortality rates. The

lower costs result from fewer hospital stays and fewer prescription

drugs. Since the differences remain once we control for neighborhood

specific fixed effects at a highly detailed level, the lower costs and

longer lives are unlikely to be related to differences in socio-economic

status. Possible explanations are selection (e.g. people with a low taste

for medical interventions might be more likely to choose CAM) and better

practices (e.g. less overtreatment, more focus on preventive and curative

health promotion) by GPs with knowledge of compleme ntary medicine.

Kooreman & Baars, Tilburg University

Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

Vaccines -

http://vaccinationdangers.wordpress.com/ Homeopathy

http://homeopathycures.wordpress.com

Vaccine Dangers, Childhood Disease Classes & Homeopathy

Online/email courses - next classes start February 4