Medicine: Acupuncture Crackdown

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California has already found such a way. The California Medical Association wants to encourage further study of acupuncture and other forms of traditional Chinese medicine. The state legislature has cooperated with a new law that allows acupuncture to be performed by unlicensed practitioners for the purpose of scientific investigation. The only proviso is that the pin-sticking be supervised by a licensed physician. As a result, some Chinese acupuncturists in California are expected to begin work in medical-school hospitals. Others now practicing privately —in technical violation of the law —have so far been left alone by officials.