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Craig A. Lambert, PhD
Harvard Magazine Cambridge, Mass

JAMA. 1992;267(10):1338.

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To the Editor.

—The JAMA article on Maharishi Ayur-Veda by Andrew Skolnick¹ makes several false statements regarding Harvard Magazine and my published work.

Our associate managing editor, Jean Martin, told Mr Skolnick that an assistant to Dr Deepak Chopra had ordered a large number of reprints of my article from our September-October 1989 issue. One cannot fault Skolnick for accurately reporting what he was told. As it turns out, however, while Chopra's associate did inquire about reprints, no such order ultimately was placed; no reprints were purchased, printed, or delivered.

Skolnick's article describes my Harvard Magazine article as one that gives "a glowing account of Maharishi Ayur-Veda." The article in question profiles two brothers, Sanjiv and Deepak Chopra, both Boston-based physicians. Sanjiv Chopra is a gastroenterologist and hepatic specialist who practices mainstream academic medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Mass. Ayurvedic medicine does not enter his practice.

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