Follow-up on the Gus DiZerega lecture

I contacted Gus about the story and this is the response I got:

Hi Hobbes-
It was many years ago- when Nixon went and Alsop (Stewart or Joseph- I don't remember, but it seems to be Stewart) got appendicitis and wrote a piece about watching it being removed via a mirror the docs gave him. That's all I remember - that and the reaction of the head of Yale's med school.
I just googled around and found another mention of what I remember here
http://www.ouuf.org/Sermons/ESSpirituality.html
This article gives some details I do not remember, but there is no mention of the head of Yale's med school saying it couldn't be true because their theories told them pain did not work that way.- so we likely are remembering the same column.
The Univ. of Maryland Medical Center discusses acupuncture in a way that fits Alsop's report, but does not mention him. (scroll down the article)
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/appendicitis-000014.htm
I think it was roo far back to be in Google. If you can find a copy of Alsop's columns (not his Saturday Evening Post pieces) and look around the time he accompanied Nixon to China, you'll find it.

New students for 2010

A big shout-out to my new set of students for 2010! We just had our first class and I'm very excited to start this new session with them. We had five students to start and there are three others on their way (they couldn't attend the first class for a variety of reasons).

In case they've come to peek at this blog, I will take this opportunity to shamelessly plug my new show this weekend. Go visit my podcast site to learn more about it.

See you all in a week!