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Nonconventional Therapies
Roger O. Littge, MD, MSPH
Private Practice Redding, Calif
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(6):487.
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Having just read the article by Schachter et al1 in the December issue of the ARCHIVES, I believe that clarification of a number of issues would have helped to communicate their ideas more effectively and that the authors should express their views on the directions that research on the nonconventional therapies should take.
For their purposes, it was perhaps necessarily crude to lump together all the various types of therapy as they did, but thoughtful discussion is possible regarding most of the types of therapy that they included. Many, perhaps most, physicians give some significant degree of credit to hypnosis, and few, if any, would call for making it illegal. Yet it was included with homeopathy and Eastern medicine (which was poorly defined), which mean different things to different people. Some of the claims of homeopathy, particularly that a substance can be effective even when a solution is diluted
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