Digest Number 5,Msg. 1/Paul Lowe

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Hi Paul,

 

nice to hear of your interest in my work. And i think i envy you for the

scientific (which i assume is also a financial and time/space) backup of your

work. statistics is always the thing that we lack, because we would have to do

it in the free time left(now for example) meant to " undo " and recreate myself.

i am just one of four doctors in our ambulance, and even if we are a team and

almost friends, our methods and backgrounds are quite different and there is

always a pressure to succeed " now " . On one side we (our workteam) are all in

a way " freakdoctors " , survivors of our german medical system (and job

situation) and on the other hand we do the biggest -the only- drug ambulance

in bonn, right in the center on the side of the local " scene " , the " Bonner

Loch " , where all the " lost souls " gather. So it all has quite pressing

dynamics of its own, which sees me mainly reacting and responding (too often

maybe like the badminton player on a rugby field). We are striving for a

common concept in our work, but we dont have it yet. So i am somewhat of a

pioneer, i introduce the possibility of acupuncture not only to one person but

to an undefined subculture of " patients " and the team, where the pro and cons

seem to vary from week to week, each experience influencing by mouth-to-mouth

a kind of " subculture public opinion " .

As im writing this, it comes to mind that, yes thats really true, and how

important it is to " publish " a kind of paper, that claryfies what can be

expected from acupuncture, and what the necessary conditions are, and most

importantly all in a simple " juicy emotional " language because they are not

really a reading lot, but more influenced by pictures, emotions and

styles,i.e. mainly " effects " .

Maybe, i go off on a tangente now, i really would like to read about your

conditions, which, as you are part of a university, should give you the

quietness of a " controlled space " , good for conscious, structured manouvering

(without " collective mood interdependence " ...).

 

i would like to hear from you

 

Dieter