Why is the term healing preferred to medicine when referring to alternative and complementary modalities?
a. Medicine implies that only physicians can carry out the treatment.
b. The treatments are based on holistic phi-losophies that go beyond treatment or cure of the physiologic dimensions of care.
c. Clients might associate alternative treat-ments with hospital care.
d. Nurses have had a strong influence in naming this modality.
B
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