Bill Benda, MD, an emergency medicine physician at Big Sur Health Center and Mee Memorial Hospital in King City, California. He serves as associate editor of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine and Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal and has coauthored several book chapters and dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles on different facets of complementary medicine, including animal therapy.
We’ve all seen those highly trained, four-legged helpers assist a blind person in navigating a street crossing. What’s new: Scientists…