Letters to the Press

by Kim Shippey

This week we reprint two letters written to the editors of American newspapers.

The first letter refers to the three-day conference on "Spirituality & Healing in Medicine" held in Boston, Massachusetts, last December. The conference was sponsored by Harvard Medical School and The Mind/Body Medical Institute, Deaconess Hospital. Two months after the conference, the weekly newspaper Marblehead Reporter, which reflects on local events in a community just north of Boston, published a special "Health '96" supplement. Ethel Baker, a regular reader of the Reporter, appreciated the newspaper's initiative and wrote the editor about the supplement and about some of the issues raised by the conference:

The [supplement] was well written, interesting, varied and instructive. And between the articles and the advertising, readers were given quite a clear picture of the ever-broadening array of health-care systems and healthcare practitioners available to anyone seeking help in time of illness. But I also think there was a significant hole in the reporting.

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