Complementary/Alternative Medicine Use in Primary Care

The question is why are people using complementary/alternative therapies more and more today and where do we stand on the use of such therapies as a primary care provider. We need to determine the answers to such questions as: Do we need more education about complementary/alternative therapies? Do we just say "no" to complementary/alternative medicine? What about our patients who are using all of these therapies? What will be our approaches? Being a touchstone and gatekeeper in the health care system, primary care physicians should be made aware of the growing use of complementary medicine and they need to be knowledgeable about the use of complementary/alternative modalities.