However, these technological advances have come at a cost.

Technicians, not doctors, run diagnostic machines. A patient often feels like just another number, another gall bladder, another heart attack. Hospitals, and doctors, are overburdened: studies suggest that physicians have just 5 to 6 minutes to spend with each patient.

Germs have developed resistance to every known antibiotic. Medical insurance premiums are higher then ever, while insurers more than ever limit access to physicians we want to see.

Out of this frustration, a shift in health care has come, that evokes care that our grandmothers knew before the high tech world of "modern medicine."

Physicians who practice integrative medicine are going back to basics, and studying more "natural" healing methodologies. Research into alternative and complementary therapies regularly reveals breakthroughs, and a promise of better health through virtually non-toxic approaches.

Patients have made integrative medicine, the fastest growing segment of the healthcare industry. Patients are getting the kind of help that they went to the doctor for. They get a physician that is willing to sit down and talk to them. They are getting someone who listens.

Integrative medicine includes acupuncture, homeopathy, Chinese medicine, neuro-linguistic programming, behavioral modification, and many more. The use of certain vitamins, minerals and herbs have been shown to benefit arthritis pain, diabetes, and some symptoms of asthma, and to help in the prevention of heart disease, osteoporosis, and some types of cancer.

Medicine will see integration of all the healing arts to best suit patients' needs. It is now documented and possible to heal cancer without the devastating effects of chemotherapy, in itself a cancer-provoking agent. I am able to document many more ways to treat cancer naturally in Cancer Free For Life, where I describe at length the processes available to you.