Regulating complementary medicine. Statutory regulation is essential.

EDITOR,—I am distressed by the lack of insight implicit in Julie Stone's editorial when she says that “statutory regulation is unnecessary for therapies other than those capable of causing direct physical harm.”1 Physical harm is usually easily recognisable and corrected. Psychological harm can blight the remainder of a patient's life and be extraordinarily difficult to rectify. For example, a patient of mine …