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Marsha F. Goldsmith

JAMA. 1999;282:2287-2290.

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JAMA Medical News & Perspectives recently asked the directors of constituents of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md, to predict what the future portends for their disciplines.

Targeting the year 2020 because it's far enough away to allow some blue-sky thinking yet close enough for much informed speculation, we hoped many of the people overseeing US progress in medicine would share their thoughts on what unfolding developments or utter surprises the first fifth of the new century is likely to hold.

Nearly all of those we asked said they were pleased to have this opportunity to prognosticate; their responses follow.

NATIONAL CENTER FOR COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

As a result of rigorous scientific investigation, several therapeutic and preventive modalities currently deemed elements of complementary and alternative medicine will have proven effective. Therefore, by 2020, these interventions will have been incorporated into conventional medical education and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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