The Sidebar

A couple days ago, Dean Sterling Jones, my Belfast, Northern Ireland blogging buddy, reported an item about how Aintree University Hospitals in Liverpool offers, apparently via the publicly-funded National Health Service, these "holistic treatments" (all links to Quackwatch.com): 

• “aromatherapy” 
• “aromatic facial"
• ”reflexology” 
• “crystal therapy” 
• “reiki”
• “colour therapy (chromotherapy)”

Today Dean and I co-signed (and are co-blogging) this request for a review to the Care Quality Commission, "the independent regulator of health and social care in England."