China's medicine wars - Los Angeles Times article

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China's medicine wars

 

January 8, 2007 By Mark Magnier / Times Staff Writer

 

Xikou, China — THE fur is flying, not to mention the acupuncture

needles, the firewort and the $15,000-a-pound bull gallstones. China's

ancient healing arts, as integral to national identity as the Great

Wall or steamed dumplings, have become embroiled in the country's

struggle to balance tradition and modernity...

 

....Criticism that traditional medicine is not scientific dates back

centuries. But Zhang's prescriptive remedies — including an end to

national insurance coverage for traditional medicine, rigorous

scientific standards and obligatory Western training for traditional

doctors — have hit a nerve at a time when traditional Chinese medicine

is increasingly on the defensive...

 

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fg-healing8jan08,1,6942517.story

 

or

 

http://tinyurl.com/tgle4

 

LA Times articles are available free for about 7 days from printing so

these links should be good until January 14 or 15.

[Guest guest]

This was pretty disappointing or maybe discouraging is the better word.

Unfortunately the

Medicine gets stuck with the Tiger Killer and Bear Torturer label which always

gets lumped

into the argument.

 

 

 

This quote below from the second page is weird. I can only assume that the

second

paragraph should be " most people who study TCM in the States are... "

_______________

 

Although Chinese schools pump out thousands of traditional medicine graduates

each

year, nearly half never practice ¡ª they chose the specialty because other

departments

were full.

 

This is in contrast with the United States, where most people who study medicine

are

mature, highly motivated students.

 

_________________

 

Perhaps they are trying to compliment us mature, highly motivated students....

 

doug

 

, " Mark Melchiorre " <mark wrote:

>

> China's medicine wars

>

> January 8, 2007 By Mark Magnier / Times Staff Writer

>

> Xikou, China ? THE fur is flying, not to mention the acupuncture

> needles, the firewort and the $15,000-a-pound bull gallstones. China's

> ancient healing arts, as integral to national identity as the Great

> Wall or steamed dumplings, have become embroiled in the country's

> struggle to balance tradition and modernity...

>

> ...Criticism that traditional medicine is not scientific dates back

> centuries. But Zhang's prescriptive remedies ? including an end to

> national insurance coverage for traditional medicine, rigorous

> scientific standards and obligatory Western training for traditional

> doctors ? have hit a nerve at a time when traditional Chinese medicine

> is increasingly on the defensive...

>

> http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fg-healing8jan08,1,6942517.story

>

> or

>

> http://tinyurl.com/tgle4

>

> LA Times articles are available free for about 7 days from printing so

> these links should be good until January 14 or 15.

>