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Integrative medicine, which combines biomedicine with selected elements of CAM (complementary and alterna-tive medicine), is viewed by its proponents as providing optimal care to patients by drawing on a broader array of health care options than conventional medicine. In this spirit, Rees and Weil (2001) stated that integrative medi-cine “views patients as whole people with minds and spirits as well as bodies and includes these dimensions in diagnosis and treatment ” (p. 119). Integrative medicine takes a variety of forms and is practiced in a variety of settings (Fadlon, 2005; Mizrach