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Article: ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE BRINGS NEW EXPOSURES.
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- Business Insurance
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- October 11, 1999
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CHICAGO-As alternative therapies continue to gain prominence on the U.S. health care scene, managing the risks associated with such treatments takes on ever greater importance.
To a large extent, alternative medicine and complementary care call for the same sorts of approaches health care risk managers apply in dealing with the exposures of conventional medicine.
But, according to one health care risk management expert, risk managers also must be aware of some special risks and challenges the alternative therapies can present.
Speaking last week in Chicago at the annual conference of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management, Paula ...