Published June 08, 2009, 12:00 AM


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Dr. Richard Dutton, chief of anesthesiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center, is shown in Baltimore. Dutton calls Reiki therapy "mumbo jumbo" that amounts to self-hypnosis. But he also said he’s a fan of it because it can help patients relax.

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