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LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
To
the Editor: I would like to take the liberty of expressing many
thanks to Dr Russell J. Erickson for his kind assistance at the time
of screening and examining my thesis when I submitted it to the 2001
AAMA Symposium (MARF contest).
I am grateful to Dr Erickson for the Gold Award given to me for my thesis
– owing to his kind guidance as well as for his assistance in preparation
of the English version published in Medical Acupuncture (Vol. 13/No.
3).
I hope that my research work will make a contribution to the further
growth of the AAMA. I also would like to express many thanks to those
who participated in the preparation of the thesis, as well as to Ms
Kayoko Shigematsu who translated the original Japanese version into
the English version.
— Toshiyuki Maeda, MD
Tokyo, Japan
From the Editor: We are saddened to report that Dr Maeda died
before the publication of his article in the last issue of the journal,
and we extend our heartfelt sympathy to his family and friends.
To the Editor: I’m writing regarding the article on evidence-based
medicine and acupuncture by Dr Michael Greenwood in Vol. 13/No. 2 of
the journal. I hope this article is well read by members of the Academy
and all those interested in acupuncture research. The article has great
significance while likely to be quite controversial.
I also recognize the limits of standard pharmacological approaches to
researching acupuncture. Indeed, in our recent article pertaining to
defining acupuncture (Vol. 13/No. 3), Dr Lowell Kobrin and I underscored
a gross oversight in current acupuncture research, a precise definition
for acupuncture. Many of us recognize that the emperor has no clothes
when it comes to a large part of current acupuncture research. Dr Greenwood
eruditely enumerates the landmines involved in researching acupuncture
from a Western mechanistic paradigm. Others in their reviews of current
research in acupuncture have appreciated significant shortcomings in
standard methodologies used to evaluate acupuncture. I don’t want
us, however, to throw out the proverbial baby with the bath water, and
I believe that further research in acupuncture can and will be helpful
to patients and clinicians alike.
I invite readers to visit www.acubriefs.com
for a full review of Dr Greenwood’s article (March edition, Acubriefs
newsletter).
— James K. Rotchford, MD, MPH
Port Townsend, WA
To the Editor: I recently received my journal with our article
inside. It looks great, and my thanks for all the hard work.
— Steve Amoils, MD
Cincinnati, Ohio
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