Tuesday, November 13, 2007

New Yorker medicine

Yet in just the few years since the publication of that New Yorker cartoon,
mainstream medicine’s historic disdain for alternative medicine has softened
remarkably. The decision by the U.S. Congress in 1991 to establish an Office
of Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health was, to be sure,
a political act, and one that enraged many MDs.

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