A patient’s comments on JAMA report- Hinman’s Acupuncture trial in Australia for chronic knee pain

1. POSTED OCTOBER 13TH, 2014 AT 7:07 PM 
   From Harvard medical school-Harvard Health Publications.
   http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/acupuncture-knee-arthritis-fails-one-test-may-still-worth-try-201410017470

   Quick Care Walk-In Medical Clinic
   Although acupuncture is indeed not endorsed by the medical community, some of our patients do report successful treatments. Thank you for an informative article.
   • POSTED OCTOBER 15TH, 2014 AT 2:23 AM

     Kino
     This is silly! many doctors ‘work’ with Acupuncture, Kinesiology, Chiropractic and more. Many in the medical profession are disillusioned by the ‘a pill for every ill and hide the symptoms’ attitude to disease which the AMA forces them to work with.
     In an editorial in the highly esteemed ‘British Medical Journal’, titled ‘Where is the Wisdom? The Poverty of Medical Evidence, BMJ’s editor Dr. Richard Smith recounts a lecture he attended with renowned health policy consultant Dr. David Eddy.Eddy found, after doing significant research, that only about 13% of medical interventions are supported by solid scientific evidence and that only 1% of the articles in medical journals are scientifically sound.Why is that? Because most of those articles quote from other articles which make unsupported and unfounded claims.

     The High Risks of the Medical Approach

     Dr. Lucian Leape, researcher at the Harvard Medical School of Public Health, also states that only 13% of medical procedures have ever been tested for appropriateness by randomized trials.
     He noted that adverse events occurred in 3.7 percent of all hospitalizations. Worse yet, 13.6 percent of those adverse events led to death!
     He is quoted as saying, “Medicine is now a high risk industry, like aviation.
     But, the chance of dying in an aviation accident is one in 2 million, while the risk of dying from a medical accident is one in 200!”
     I think I’ll take acupuncture anytime!

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