Medical board chair explains why alternative medicine crackdown was ditched
Dr Anne Tonkin says complementary, alternative and emerging medicine is hard to define accurately
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The Medical Board of Australia has no more plans to single out doctors offering complementary, alternative or unconventional medical treatments after abandoning its proposal for stand-alone guidelines.
It’s been two years since the board unveiled its draft code, which explicitly warned doctors against providing treatments without a “reasonable expectation” of clinical benefit.