In your message dated Tuesday 16, July 1996 Becky Sarah wrote :
> I would suggest that what are called complementary
> therapies--acupuncture, homeopathy, and midwifery practices that
differ
> from obstetrical practices--are proper subjects for EBM and should
be
> studied and investigated in the same way as conventional allopathic
drugs
> and surgeries. These therapies may or may not be effective for a
specfic
> problem, but they do not operate in different realm. Many people
feel
> they've been helped by them.
>
> I do agree that physicians should not prescribe or do
therapies
> in which they are not trained.
I agree - up to a point. The point is, of course, that there *is* no
evidence upon which to base the decision to use complementary
therapies. What they need is research, and then we may have some
evidence.
Apropos of nothing very much, did you know that the composer Hector
Berlioz's father, a doctor, wrote a treatise on acupuncture in the
early nineteenth century?
Toby
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