... systems of care in order to engagetheir alternatively inclined patients in open discussion of their habit (in contrastto shaming them in the manner of the cartoon physician). Eisenberg had found in ... MDs. Nevertheless, the founding of the OAM, followed by Eisenberg’s study (1993), the opening of the firstpublicly funded natural medicine clinic in the country (King County, Wash-ington, 1996), ... unsettling reminder to me, as a medical historian, that the long record of interprofessional warfare continues to strain interactions between the two sides.Time is in the process of relieving the...