AHMA-Principles of Ethics

AMERICAN HOLISTIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Practitioners render service to humanity with full respect for the dignity of humankind, treating the total person: body, mind and spirit. The treatment shall be at all times in the best interest of the patient.
Practitioners continuously improve their skill and medical knowledge and make that skill and knowledge available to their patients.
Practitioners recognize that patients have the right to share in making decisions pertaining to their treatment. They guide and educate patients toward this goal and actively encourage them to share responsibility for their care.
Practitioners may advertise where legal; however, such advertising should never promise improvement or cure or be self laudatory.
Practitioners have the right to practice all responsible methods of treatment. The practitioner has the obligation, however, to determine the effectiveness and safety of such treatments and to acquire the skills and training necessary for the delivery of such care.
Practitioners do not reveal the confidences entrusted in the course of medical care unless required by law, or unless it becomes necessary to protect the welfare of the individual or the community. Members should make provisions to donate some time to treatment of those without adequate financial resources on an individual or community basis.

What We're About:

The AHMA was founded in 1978 to unite physicians (M.D.s and D.O.s) who practice holistic medicine. Later, associate membership was expanded to include all state-licensed holistically oriented practitioners, such as chiropractors, naturopaths, nurses, psychologists, dentists, etc. Students studying for these degrees are also eligible to be members.

The mission of the AHMA is to support physicians in their evolving personal and professional development and to promote an art and science of health care which acknowledges all aspects of the individual, the family and the planet.

Holistic Medicine is a philosophy of medical care that emphasizes personal responsibility and participation in one's own health care. It encompasses all safe modalities of diagnosis and treatment while emphasizing the whole person - physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.

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