The nurse, studying alternative medical approaches, learns that the Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health was founded in 1992:
a. to prevent Americans from engaging in alternative methods of health care.
b. because many Americans are pursuing alternative methods of health care.
c. because most conventional physicians are interested in alternative methods of health care.
d. to regulate alternative methods of health care.
ANS: B
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