Acupuncture and Chinese medicine have been practiced for many years,Do they really have so much harm as bellow:

Harm 1. Misdiagnosis of serious conditions. Alternative practitioners offer to diagnose illnesses without proper training.

How do you know that?

Harm 2. Withdrawal from treatment. Clients of alternative practitioners risk being encouraged to withdraw from life saving treatments in favours of treatments without evidence

Really? I don't think qualifiled TCM doctor do anything like this.

Harm 3. Harms arising from the nature of the alternative practice, but not covered by the regulatory framework

That's why..........

Harm 4. Lack of informed consent. If alternative practitioners are not required to study or show evidence of efficacy, how can they inform patients of their options?

We don't think acupuncture and TCM are no evidence medicine

Harm 5. Equity. Doctors and nurses have to use evidence based methods, but it is proposed that alternative practitioners are not held to this standard. Is this fair? Health Minsters should ask themselves if they advocate withdrawing the requirement for evidence based treatment from doctors and nurses. If not, why not? And if not, why should alternative practitioners be treated differently?

How do you know acupuncturists are not held to that standard?

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Harm 8. Reputational harms for UK Higher Education. UK Honours Degrees are based on the ability to think critically and to assess evidence. Alternative medicine Degree programmes do not require this. These positions are not compatible.

I don't know this system. In China, You have to have medical qualification.

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