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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1998;152:1154.

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Free speech necessitates printing the letter by Theodoropoulos¹ in the "Pediatric Forum" section. His response to your "Call for Papers" on alternative medicine² is the typical narrow-minded, "scientific" physician's answer to a real problem that I believe is driving patients away from allopathic medicine into the waiting, open arms of alternative, complementary, integrative, or holistic medicine. Alternative medicine is taking the United States by storm, as it has done the world.

Forty-two percent of Americans have used alternative medicine during 1997.^3-4 Physicians, healers, and teachers must have knowledge of the different alternative medicine modalities as well as specifics within the modalities. We must know what is safe, what may be harmful, what is helpful, and what is quackery. We must, at least, be able to answer questions that our patients ask us. For example, which herbs or natural products are useful for anxiety, sleep, or depression? What are the side . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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