An older adult patient tells the home health nurse, "My doctor hasn't helped my arthritis at all. I am using the chiropractor now." The patient has gone from:
a. Western medicine to complementary therapy.
b. complementary therapy to alternative therapy.
c. alternative therapy to allopathic medicine.
d. allopathic medicine to alternative therapy.
D
Alternative therapies may become the primary treatment modality; for instance, the patient switching from traditional (allopathic) medicine to chiropractic (alternative).
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