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In his position expressed in the April 9, 1999, debate transcribed for the ARCHIVES, Relman scoffs at the fact that "practitioners of alternative medicine . . . believe in the power of mind and thought to change physical matter and heal organic diseases."¹

As an increasingly alternative or holistic internist, my deeply held belief in the power of the mind to cure the body comes not from exposure to the likes of Weil, but from my conventional Harvard Medical School education, which included the study of articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine while Relman was the editor-in-chief.

No clinical trial would ever be considered for publication by a leading peer-reviewed journal if it did not include a placebo arm. Implicit in the inclusion of a placebo group is the assumption that mind and thought alone—the belief systems of the patient and physician— can result in the resolution . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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