The New Medicine premiered nationwide on PBS stations on Wednesday, March
29, 2006. Program DescriptionReturning Human Touch to
When Bill Moyers’ series, Healing and the Mind, premiered on PBS
over 10 years ago, integrative medicine still lay on the fringes of the U.S. health
care system. Today, it is booming. Even the most conservative health institutions
are beginning to practice therapies once considered “new age”— acupuncture,
visualization, self-hypnosis and mindfulness— alongside the more traditional
drugs and surgery. Equally important is a new attitude that treats the patient as a whole person rather than a cog in an assembly line. The New Medicine, a two-hour documentary, hosted by Dana Reeve, takes viewers
inside medical schools, healthcare clinics, research institutions and private
practices to examine the rapidly expanding world of integrative medicine. The producers of The New Medicine also created a related |
Produced By: ![]() |
Funded By:
|
© 2006 PBS. All Rights Reserved. |