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Australian Doctor,  March, 2007  

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Dr Lance D Boyle reports

MANY GPs recently received an invitation to the annual conference of the Australasian Integrative Medicine Association. The invitation bears the association's emblem, a Rotary-style wheel with two intertwined snakes separated by a staff. This looks medical, a little like the AMA's badge, but investigation suggests all is not as it seems.

As erudite readers (are there any others?) of this column will know, the correct symbol of medicine, used by the WHO, the AMA and most professional medical groups, is the staff of Asclepius, the ancient Greek god of ...

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