"CAM-creep": medical practitioners, professional discipline and integrative medicine

This article examines the problem of applying disciplinary standards to the practice of integrative medicine. The article examines the structure of the National Law and discusses examples of when medical practitioners have been found to have breached professional standards because of their use of complementary and alternative medicine. The article argues there is a danger in medical practitioners who move away from the principles of evidence-based practice and informed consent in their adoption of integrative medicine. The authors posit a concept of "CAM-creep", situations where practitioners abandon medical professional standards in favour of ones from complementary and alternative medicine.