Does Acupuncture Work? Rational Prescribing Meets Evidence-Based Medicine

As a medical doctor who treats chronic pain, I do a lot of acupuncture. If you are a doctor, a researcher or a layperson guided by science, your first question might be “what is the evidence for that?” While this may seem like a valid question, it is a bit misguided, and the answer is not as important as you might think. To find out whether acupuncture or any other therapy might help you, a rational prescribing approach makes more sense.