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...example of grass-roots efforts aimed at addressing the downside of decentralization is the Harvard Health Caucus at Harvard Medical School (HMS), an organization of graduate students that I founded during my first year as a student in HMS. Its purpose is to encourage students from the various graduate and professional schools to meet and discuss issues in health policy. The centerpiece of the Caucus’ activities is a yearly Policy Roundtable Series, where we focus on one topic over a period of months and hold panel discussions at the various Harvard campuses...
Though Kaptchuk’s medical training is unique within his branch of HMS, he says he is comfortable not having an MD, and it’s not hard to see why. Kaptchuk is the bearer of two wordy titles: Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School’s Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medicine and Director of Complementary Specialties at the one-month-old Harvard Osher Institute. He also serves on the National Institute of Health’s National Advisory Council for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Between his outfit, office and job, Kaptchuk...
...Both HMS and the U.S. government seem to agree with him, as more and more funding is devoted to research in alternative medicine, marking a trend in the American public’s increased acceptance and adoption of these therapies. “Taking care of yourself in a spiritual way has become important to Americans,” Kaptchuk says. Studies published by researchers in Kaptchuk’s division have shown that in 1997 Americans spent an estimated $27 billion out-of-pocket on complementary care. By that same year, visits to non-traditional practitioners had increased nearly...
Professional acceptance of and interest in integrative and alternative medicine is a relatively new development; the HMS Division for Complementary and Integrative Medicine for which Kaptchuk works is not even two years old. But while skepticism as to the efficacy of complementary medicine remains, the field has made giant steps toward respectability—for many years such therapies were considered outright quackery...
Though Kaptchuk has worked at HMS for 12 years and served as the director of the Shattock Hospital Pain Clinic before then, his unconventional training meant less acceptance earlier in his career. “People brought me in because of my training in Chinese medicine,” he says. “But for many years people tried to keep me in the closet. People didn’t know how to deal with me.” But by publishing several scholarly articles and demonstrating his capacity as an expert researcher, Kaptchuk has climbed...