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...East Orange, N.J., arrived in New York City's Chinatown, she was not the first patient to join the queue outside the small herb shop at 11 Mott Street. Six others, one of whom had been there since 4:40 a.m., were already waiting for Dr. Huan Lam Ng, a China-trained acupuncturist. Soon 35 patients-none of them Chinese-were on line for treatment...
...Ng's acupuncture practice, and others like it, were once confined almost exclusively to Chinatown residents. Since U.S. physicians brought back glowing reports of acupuncture's use in mainland China last summer, however, such practices have boomed. Now they may be ended entirely, at least in New York. Concerned over acupuncture's administration by unlicensed practitioners, the New York State Department of Education has already shut down a Manhattan clinic devoted to the ancient art. Last week, it ordered Dr. Ng and a dozen colleagues to close their consulting and treatment rooms...
...works that many doctors are cautious about its indiscriminate use. The reason for the New York crackdown, however, was statutory rather than scientific. The state agency has ruled that acupuncture is the practice of medicine and may therefore be performed only by properly licensed physicians. Though Dr. Ng and many of his fellow needle wielders hold medical degrees from Chinese institutions, they are not authorized to practice in New York. Without fluency in English or, in some cases, recognized medical credentials, such men would have difficulty in passing state licensing examinations...
Olga Laaland, a native of Guadeloupe, credits Dr. Ng with relieving facial paralysis and enabling him to close his eyes properly for the first time in five years. A few, citing Dr. Ng's low fees ($10 a visit regardless of complaint or treatment), believe that organized medicine is behind the state action...
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