As health care increasingly focuses on the management of chronic illness, the integration of these nonpharmacological strategies with more traditional pharmacotherapy will be essential to maximizing positive outcomes. These interventions present specific difficulties in research design but they must be subjected to the most rigorous clinical research if we are to know what works best for whom.
These clinician scientists face many of the same pressures that physician clinician scientists do and require the same recognition and support that their physician scientist colleagues do.
