On the science of integrative medicine

Dublin GP Dr William Ralph wonders why more doctors don’t embrace an ‘integrative’ rather than a ‘mechanistic’ approach to human health to help solve many of society’s self-inflicted chronic illnesses Having recently started a new job that involves driving and taking up the habit of the ‘new smoking’, i.e. sitting for long periods, I thought I could use the time wisely by listening to something, but not to the news, as I find the editorial slant on RTÉ to be fixated with a parochial view of politics, health and what the unions will do next. Nor did I want to listen…