Dr.Michael O.Smith shares his thoughts on World Health Organisation Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014-2023 Dr.Michael O.Smith WHO document on Traditional Medicines gives a lot of encouragement to NADA. No one quotes such an WHO document here (US), but for much of the world this is a very real document. I remember a previous version from the UN---Bannerman wrote me that ‘alternate’ medicine would be necessary to help most people, if not “the west”. He was impressed by our use of acupuncture, and put me in touch with Dr. Lando , a retiring WHO senior executive from Nigeria. Lando told me that the Chinese were good at providing acupuncture treatment in Africa, but lousy at teaching the locals. Lando called and wrote me and asked me if I knew of acupuncturists who were good at communicating with ‘non-white’ people. I wrote that those were the only kind of staff I had at Lincoln . In the 80’s we were visited by a WHO staff...
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