Over the last few months I spoke at several national and international conferences. Smart, accomplished physicians — urologists, oncologists, radiation oncologists — kept pulling me aside with the same question. “What do you do? What is holistic and integrative urology?”
It’s a fair question. The field is buried under a pile of overlapping labels: alternative, complementary, integrative, functional, naturopathic. Most clinicians can’t define the differences. And the words keep changing. That confusion isn’t academic. Your patients are already using these approaches — often without telling you.
Much of the language in this article about not using conventional care and putting the patient in danger sounds AI-generated. I have encountered this in my own use of AI. However, when I push back, instead of accepting AI’s strong bias in favor of conventional medicine, the response from AI is much more measured and stated with far less certainty… and the fear-mongering element is absent. Something for this author to consider. Thanks.