Acupucturists

I overheard two acupuncturists talking the other day at the coffeeshop. One of them explained that he was treating patients for cancer. Yeah, with acupuncture. He explained that he has to file the treatment as “secondary care”, which I presume means that he has to claim to the insurance company that he’s treating the patient for nausea that comes with the chemotherapy. I couldn’t help but just shake my head that he believed that he was treating cancer with acupuncture. I can only assume that he told the patient that cancer can be treated with acupuncture, too. Rather sad that once psudoscience gets a foot in the door, they try to expand their influence and convince people they can do things like treat cancer.