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...Andrew Weil offers what the brilliance of Western medicine seems to have forgotten--the magic of healing." RICHARD L. GAY Grayling, Mich...
...medical establishment is uneasy, negative, even angry about practitioners of alternative medicine like Dr. Andrew Weil [HEALTH, May 12]. This suggests to me that it recognizes the messenger but fails to understand the real message. When people have to endure impersonal treatment, insurance hassles, escalating fees, unmanageable managed care and doctors who don't listen, is it any wonder they turn to alternative therapies and self-care? LOU WALLER Norman, Okla...
...pity you chose to critique the entire field of alternative medicine through the idiosyncratic spectrum of a single individual. While Dr. Weil has done a great job of communicating some highlights of this varied and disparate field to the general public, he cannot speak for the entire movement. There are thousands of practitioners who have mastered their particular area of specialization. They have been healing people by unconventional means and attempting to legitimize those practices for many years. Weil can't claim all the glory. JOHN V. DOMMISSE, M.D. Tucson, Ariz...
JEFFREY KLUGER flew to Tucson and drove 35 miles along rough, rutted roads to a remote corner of the Arizona desert to interview America's most visible health guru, Dr. Andrew Weil, for this week's cover story. Kluger, who joined TIME's science staff last August, toured Weil's home, a converted horse stable, and found Weil to be energetic, engaging and quite sincere in his belief that he is helping improve America's health. Weil faithfully follows most of his own good-health gospel, says Kluger, although like many fiftysomethings, he has a hard time keeping his weight...
Some sublime selections...Tiger Woods, Albright, Thurman, Gates, Carter, Weil, Powell and others make me smile and say, "Score one" (several, actually) for the visionaries, the dreamers and all those brave souls who will make the next century a time of growth and inclusion and, compared with the 20th century, a thing of beauty. KEN TAUB St. James, New York...