Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., clinical professor of surgery at Yale University recants his experiences observing acupuncture analgesia used in surgery while in China.
NCCAM Distingushed Lecture – Chinese Medicine, Western Science, and Acupuncture
NCCAM will hold the inaugural lecture of the Stephen E. Straus Distinguished Lecture in the Science of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland, clinical professor of surgery at Yale University and distinguished author, will present the first lecture “Chinese Medicine, Western Science, and Acupuncture.” During visits to China, Nuland observed major surgery done with no anesthesia, aided by acupuncture. In the Straus lecture, he will describe these operations and tell of his experience. In his recent book, The Uncertain Art, Nuland wrote “the basis of acupuncture’s practical usefulness, even in the operating room, has still not been explained in terms acceptable to most orthodox Western scientists using orthodox Western investigative methods … The effectiveness of correctly applied acupuncture is not our only evidence that there are undeniable phenomena that cannot …be explained by the investigational methods of today’s biomedical science.”