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4:13 PM Friday, November 20, 2009

Your recent article on alternative medicine taught in medical school, and critics describing it as illogical thinking and pseudoscience (“Alternative remedies gain ground at medical schools,” Nov. 2), left me with a plethora of emotions.

I have spent 43 years in the medical profession looking for treatment techniques that would address the causative factors in a patient’s care, and not focus on the symptoms.

I have been fortunate to learn about many treatment approaches that address the underlying genetic, biochemical and structural problems leading to dysfunction and disease.

I have obtained this “alternative” knowledge from practitioners such as medical doctors affiliated with Yale and Harvard, and from those who have learned their art from health practices that date back thousands of years.

Some might describe many “alternative medicine” techniques used by me and medical doctors from our finest medical institutions as “quackery,” but the results are evident as more people are looking for preventive care.

They are choosing wellness over illness, and they are willing to work hard for their good health.

Maxine Hoffman

Washington Twp.

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