Today's doctor is one that makes a living off of keeping you sick. This is the consensus among most people in the health and wellness area, and believe it or not it was also the thinking of people long in the past. Thomas Edison is known to have described the doctor of the future as one that cares more about his patients' ability to maintain their own health rather than waiting until disease happens and then maintaining their sickness with drugs. What Edison was describing here is the alternative medicine doctor.

The alternative medicine doctor has been around for much longer than the traditional western doctor figure. In societies these people have taken different names - witchdoctors, shamans, healers, and so on. But the alternative medicine doctor was one that kept you healthy and was rewarded for that, rather than only treating you when you were sick. And today's world is no different. Visiting an alternative medicine doctor can help you discover parts of yourself that you had no idea, and learn how to stay healthy and living well without the use of prescriptions.