2018 Volume 45 Issue 1 Pages 19-23
Western medicine is not sufficient to sustain people's optimal health and community health. Over the past 20 years U.S. medicine has experienced three new movements. First, patients' need to maximize their healing has accelerated the growth of integrative medicine, secondly, the U.S. government has focused on precision medicine with the goal of providing better treatments for cancer patients. Finally, the urgent crisis of rapidly expanding non-communicable disease has forced physicians and healthcare professionals to begin providing a cost-effective preventive approach, lifestyle medicine. This article summarizes the growth of these three related fields — integrative, precision, and lifestyle medicine — in U.S. medicine and discusses practical steps for integrating them in the conventional medicine.