Multidisciplinary co-operation is the ideal expression of Medical Marriage, where doctors and complementary practitioners work together as a team, providing care, support, health and welfare for patients, practitioners and doctors alike. It is the best

First Do No Harm In disease care the least harmful intervention has to be provided first. Only if that fails to solve the problem are more invasive treatments justified. This means, in many cases, that

People have the right to take responsibility for their lives as much as they want to and they have the right to receive all the information they need in order to do that. They are

It would seem obvious, when looking at a model for a health care system, to consider health. However, medical training until now has tended to focus on pathologies and its treatments rather than on health.

Medical Marriage is the concept of an integrated health care system where doctors work hand in hand with practitioners of complementary therapies. Through the meeting of two very different paradigms - the so-called reductionist and

The Two Paradigms The reductionist paradigm, on which contemporary medical thinking has been based, is attributed to Newton and Descartes. Their contribution to civilisation has influenced the philosophy and science of the last three centuries