Chinese medicine courses taught at BU

Always nice to see my alma mater in the medblogs. Dr. RW worries that non-evidence-based teachings like Chinese medicine are going to pervade traditional medical curriculum.

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frycow
As mentioned in the article, acupuncture is evidence-based. The NCCAM has found it effective for treating pain, nausea, and vomiting in more than a few conditions. The other treatments mentioned in the article don’t seem to be supported by any studies (they’re likely nonsense), but exposing pre-med students to acupuncture, at least, seems to be a good thing.
By the way, you keep a great blog.
Orac
It’s a stretch to say that acupuncture is “evidence”-based. True, there does appear to be an effect from sticking needles in the skin. However, it seems to have almost nothing to do with the whole basis of acupuncture: “meridians,” “accupoints,” and, that woo of woo, qi. It’s possible that sticking small needles in the skin may relieve pain, but I’ve always said that all that mystical mumbo-jumbo about qi probably interfere with our ever figuring out if there’s anything to it.
Criminallopath
Fits right in with the “post hoc ergo propter hoc” clinical causation junk science that is taught at medical schools throughout the country (i.e. relying on the “history” of a “patient” in the throws of litigation neurosis as a method of establishing causation). You guys are a short step away from the five humors and bleeding your patients as a manner of therapy.

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