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Like his field of specialty, Ted J. Kaptchuk, OMD, is, in a word, unconventional. Poised for a professional, intellectual interview at this Harvard Medical School (HMS) assistant professor’s home, I’m surprised when a young, sleepy-eyed boy answers the door. A bearded man with a black beret, plaid shirt and short ponytail—the man who’s asked me to please call him Ted—follows his son into the foyer. “Take off your shoes and come on in,” he says...
...walk into his paper-littered office, where Kaptchuk excuses himself to return to the phone call I’ve interrupted while his son returns to playing Warcraft II on his Macintosh. His home office is walled with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves sporting titles like Acupuncture in Practice, Life Against Death, Healing Powers and Revolution in Science. A green, beaten-up copy of the Kaptchuk-penned The Web That Has No Weaver peeks out from behind a small Chinese sculpture on the shelf. The book had a second edition released last year and is recognized as the most widely read...
...arrested for practicing medicine without a license," Kaptchuk says. "Now I'm an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School teaching the next generation of physicians...
...Kaptchuk also studies the history of non-traditional medicine in the United States. There have always been conflicts between those who expose medical orthodoxy and proponents of other kinds of treatments. He spoke about the early 19th century when there was no medical licensing...
...find some of those terms very insulting," Kaptchuk says. "I'm not a doctor of complementary, or unconventional or alternative medicine...