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Brian M. Rees, MD, MPH
Rees Family Medical Clinic Pacific Palisades, Calif

JAMA. 1992;267(10):1338-1339.

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To the Editor.

—I was distressed to see that in an article in JAMA,¹ critical of Maharishi Ayur-Veda, one of your associate editors has, in essence, called me a liar.

Regarding a letter I wrote to JAMA in 1989,² he identifies me as such an author under the heading "Publications Misled" and states that I "gave the Rees Family Medical Clinic as [my] affiliation." He then writes that I "turn out to be the medical director of the Maharishi Ayur-Veda Medical Center.... However, in correspondence with JAMA, he used Rees Family Medical Clinic stationery...." as if I were trying to conceal my relationship with the Maharishi Ayur-Veda Medical Center (even though my letter, regarding TM, made no mention of Maharishi Ayur-Veda).

The first two statements are false; the third, though true, is misleading; the entire context is defamatory, the assertion "Publications Misled" is incorrect and intolerable.

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