Norma was recently diagnosed with skin cancer. She has been seeing her doctor at regularly scheduled visits but is still in a great deal of pain. At a friend's suggestion, she visited an acupuncturist who specializes in pain management. By using Western medicines as well as unorthodox medical practices, Norma is practicing:

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Norma is combining Western medicine (seeing her doctor) with unorthodox medical practices (acupuncture), which falls under complementary medicine. Alternative medicine would refer to using alternative treatments instead of Western medicine. Biomedical health practices and modern medicine are more broad terms that encompass Western medicine as a whole, but do not specifically address the use of complementary or alternative practices.

Norma Was Recently Diagnosed with Skin Cancer