Louise Demorest

Louise Demorest: The patient is a public health nurse who has been coming to Demorest for years for treatment. She brings her whole family. , according to CBC. When I started my practice people came in and they expected to see a bone through my nose and doing voodoo, says Demorest, who has been pushing needles into shoulders for 20 years. Now there is a lot more respect, a lot more interest. Louise Demorest takes a long, thin acupuncture needle out of its white envelope and, with a practised hand, inserts it in the shoulder of the woman lying on the treatment bed. At last count four million Canadians have tried some sort of alternative medicine 12 per cent have tried acupuncture. The numbers are growing. To Karin Wells' documentary, Lost in Translation (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.