Professor Karol Sikora, Professor of Cancer Medicine at the Imperial College School of Medicine based at Hammersmith Hospital, spoke out in the Sunday Times (UK) in no uncertain terms in response to a letter from Professor Colquhoun et al. As usual, Colquhoun and his chums were crowing about the removal of complementary medicine courses at the University of Salford.
In his scathing letter, Professor Sikora said: "Complementary medicine does help patients. Those of us who are faced daily by real human suffering use the best evidence available to help our patients. At the same time, patients do their best to help themselves. The ill-thought-through arguments of those who are not doctors - and so have no experience of the practice of medicine - are ridiculous. According to the Department of Health, about one in five adults uses complementary therapies. That means we need more education for practitioners, not less. And we certainly need better research, not the Stalinist repression that Professor Colquhoun and his colleagues demand. Armchair physicians are welcome to their views, but clearly patients know better."
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