Title: More of the same moon-eyed junk.
Product review: Yet another book that regurgitates the same badly-managed studies about qi gong, acupuncture, and prayer. About five of these come out every year, and this one's no different. The prayer study, for instance, had no control group; acupuncture has never been clinically shown to have any effect on disease, and only a slight effect on pain management (possibly due to a mild release of endorphins); and so on. It's all the same junk.There's no question that HMOs and doctor-patient relationships are bad. Part of the reason people feel subjectively better when tended to by an "alternative" doctor is because of the length and quality of the attention, and has nothing to do with the "healing" itself. Let's do something about the crummy doctor-patient system, so that people won't turn to out-and-out quackery and unscientific nonsense to feel like they're getting medical attention.
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