[MPWG] NEWS: AP IMPACT: Alternative medicine goes mainstream

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/07/AR2009060701170.html?hpid=sec-health

AP IMPACT: Alternative medicine goes mainstream
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
The Associated Press
Sunday, June 7, 2009; 11:58 PM

BALTIMORE -- At one of the nation's top trauma hospitals, a nurse circles 
a patient's bed, humming and waving her arms as if shooing evil spirits. 
Another woman rubs a quartz bowl with a wand, making tunes that mix with 
the beeping monitors and hissing respirator keeping the man alive.

They are doing Reiki therapy, which claims to heal through invisible 
energy fields. The anesthesia chief, Dr. Richard Dutton, calls it 
"mystical mumbo jumbo." Still, he's a fan.

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