We have numerous questions from both patients and health care providers about the use of energy massage techniques such as Therapeutic Touch, Healing Touch, Hands of Light, Reiki, etc. in hospitals and hospice care. Are these practices New Age; if so, why are they so prevalent in health care facilities?
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Why is Energy Medicine and Other New Age Quackery Getting into So Many Hospitals?
MM asks: “If energy medicine and other alternatives are scientifically unsubstantiated, why are so many of them showing up in U.S. hospitals?”