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From: wws@ukma.UUCP (Bill Stoll)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Chinese Medicine
Message-ID: <2156@ukma.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Sep-85 18:04:58 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  8 18:04:58 1985
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Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences, Lexington KY
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Summary: An open letter to Bob Felt regarding Western & Chinese Medicine.


Dear Bob,

I really appreciate your "note" on the net about Chinese Medicine.  I
have been shamed by my "colleagues", not my "peers", attitude when it
comes to the thousands of years of honest work, by caring, intelligent
healing professionals from another culture.

We have learned some things that they would have given their eye teeth
to know.  I'm sure they knew (and know) many things we should be so
wise as to want to give our eye teeth to know.  The incredible
arrogance the allopathic medical profession has evidenced has only
hurt our capacity to do what we have been charged to do: Heal the
Sick!.

One of the most powerful things I see happening is the combining of
the Eastern and Western ways.  Biofeedback has done much to break down
the nihilism of the sceptical western mind.  Now that electromagnetic
medicine is advancing in leaps and bounds western physicians are being
forced to consider "chi".  Psychoneuroimmunology is overwhelming the
narrow concepts of western orthodoxy that are no longer tenable.
Those professionals unable to make the leap to the new paradigm will
have to retire or become objects of pity.

cbosgd!ukma!wws(Walt Stoll)


-- 
Walt Stoll, MD, ABFP
Founder, & Medical Director
Holistic Medical Centre
1412 N. Broadway
Lexington, Kentucky  40505