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Gambling, Prostitution and Alternative Medicine?
Posted by Marisa Belger on December 7, 2005 - 3:56pm.
Nevada is the first state to create a review board for the practice of alternative medicine. Now the city of sin may have a new focus. The President of the Nevada Institutional Review Board hopes this new regulation will draw extensive health care business to Las Vegas turning it into the number one destination for CIM (complementary and integrative medicine) — also known as CAM.
The review board is a product of Assembly Bill 208 (PDF), which was signed into law in June. Though homeopathic doctors can already be legally licensed in Nevada, the board was established to govern alternative medicine research and to determine the standards for practicing medicine in the state. It will also dictate what practices are eligible to be paid for by insurance companies based on the safety and efficacy of the treatment.
For state officials the real excitement seems to be about money not medicine. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that the review board may help to bring billions of dollars of health care business to the city. “”It allows new and different kinds of businesses to operate in Nevada. Some might be homeopathic drug companies or pharmaceutical companies,” said Bob Cooper, economic development manager for the neighboring city of Henderson.
The Nevada Institutional Review Board has already met four times and has compiled more than 30 pages of rules and regulations through public hearings.
(Map: travelnevada.com)
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This is potentially great for Nevada’s tourist industry…they could pioneer the use of homeopathic treatments for STD’s. Also, are there any known herbal remedies to quell the compulsion to gamble? Oh wait, that would be a bad thing. It’s all about the revenue, right?
Here’s a persscription for medical marijuana, it’ll help ease the pain of losing all your money to cards and women… Then again while I shopped in conventional medicine recently, seeking treatment for erlichia / lyme related vomiting and nausea – I was told “Well we put you in with the wrong doctor today, how about a mammogram – we can do all gyn services here as well, come back for another appt. in 2 weeks” (then maybe they will treat me – right)... At another dr.- “We’d like you to have an ekg and would you be up for a pap smear today, flu shot??” Do I really need all this hmmm….....Do they give all these unnessary treatments and tests to medicaid and medicare recipients as well?? -Ka-ching! supplemental vitamins, omega fish oils, meditiation, and alternative osteopathic manipulation has helped me more than drugs. My alternative osteopathic dr 5 years ago warned me not to take Vioxx saying it was not only expensive but it wasn’t tested enough and I thus avoided problems others who continued on it had. – Thank god for doctors who really care about medicine regardless if they are scrutinized by their peers. If I could find and afford a good “real” alternative doctor now – I’d be there.