The prince and the professor: Summary of responses

doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7470.859-b

BMJ 2004;329:859 (9 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7470.859-b

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The prince and the professor

Summary of responses

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EDITOR—Professor Baum's open letter in response to thePrince of Wales's speech at a research symposium on complementarytherapies and cancer care at the Royal College of Obstetriciansand Gynaecologists sparked off some 80-odd responses.¹ Practitionersof conventional medicine and of alternative and complementarymedicine (sometimes both), former and current patients (whohave much to say to recommend both approaches), journalists,social workers, clerics, and scientists worldwide all responded.

Those who agree unanimously with Professor Baum reject PrinceCharles's proposals in no uncertain terms. But a count revealsthat they are not the majority—and neither are those whofervently defend exclusively complementary approaches to cancercare. Most correspondents, regardless of which side of the fencethey may be on, interpret the prince's speech as advocatingan integrated approach, not the abandonment of reason, askingfor complementary and alternative medicines to undergo the samerigorous trials as conventional treatments. . . . [Full text of this article]

Birte Twisselmann, technical editor

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