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Article: Letter from the publisher.
- Article from:
- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- October 1, 2004
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The September 2004 issue of Seattle magazine trumpeted its main feature, "Top Doctors," and highlighted the fact that it had selected Seattle's "Top Alternative Practitioners." I tore to the section of the local publication listing Seattle's top alternative docs--I was not surprised to find that alternative medicine had been compartmentalized into naturopathy, chiropractic, acupuncture, osteopathy. What was particularly galling was the fact that the great leaders and minds of alternative medicine, many of whom are MD's who decided not to practice conventional medicine, would not be welcomed by this classification of alternative practitioners. Licensing prohibits an MD ...
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