Current Controversy on Alternative Medicine

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For various reasons there seems to be increasing dissatisfaction with certain aspects of conventional or orthodox medicine. As Dr. Tony Smith has pointed out in the British Medical Journal,1 one of the few growth industries in contemporary Britain is what is now being described as alternative medicine.Patients who might previously have been reluctant to admit to their regular physicians that they had visited chiropractors, acupuncturists, herbalists, or faith healers are now much less reticent about doing so, and some doctors are becoming interested in discovering the scope of such practices. Indeed, a survey of the attitude of 100 . . .