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Global Activism: Organization provides integrative healthcare to patients in Nepal
Worldview | Apr. 07, 2011
Each Thursday on our Global Activism series, we hear about an individual who’s decided to work to make the world a better place.
Grainne McKeown is the founder of Mindful Medicine Worldwide. The organization provides integrative healthcare services to people in Nepal.
McKeown had spent a year in Nepal studying Buddhism. While she was there she discovered a local integrative care clinic that was completely staffed by volunteers. They had a Tibetan medicine doctor and a homeopath on staff but they didn’t have an acupuncturist. They also had lines and lines of patients waiting to be treated. So when she completed her studies in oriental medicine and acupuncture, she started Mindful Medicine Worldwide and headed back to the clinic to provide acupunture treatment for patients.
Mindful Medicine Worldwide will be holding their Spring Into Wellness Day on May 20, 2011 from 6-9pm at Flourish Studios at 3020 N. Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60657.
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Apart from the treatment of some forms of chronic pain, acupuncture has NOT been proven to be of any medical value Readers, please look up relevant articles or pubmed.gov or even wikipedia for a quick overview of all recent studies.
Acupuncture will not treat your hypertension or cerebrovascular disease; "scary" drugs with side effects can and will.
NPR, kindly interview a clinician of your choice to simply present the "other" point of view. For the sake of the patients. Thanks