Guest guest Posted November 5, 2003 Report Share Posted November 5, 2003 > I strongly recommend that you find > another > practitioner, this time one that has enough clinical > experience, who > is NOT an M.D. as well, and that you can hear > recommendations of his > skill. > Shmuel Halevi Ph.D > http://www.acumedico.com Just curious, why do you so strongly recommend against seeing an MD? Also, what about an MD-acupuncturist? Just curious. Bernard Kim Protect your identity with Mail AddressGuard http://antispam./whatsnewfree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 6, 2003 Report Share Posted November 6, 2003 Smuel is capable of answering for himself. Being an activist on these issues both here in Florida and nationally.....the typical MD who claims to perform acupuncture has NOT the faintest idea what they are doing nor did they have ANY training to speak about. The MD-Acupuncturists have a mechanism for self certification and which consists of only 350+/- hours of which 250 hours is home video which they might never even watch. What could the average busy MD learn from a video? And as Smuel says.....ask abou their skills and accomplishments and pleeeeze don;t listen to the propaganda that BECAUSE they are an MD they are 'king of the hill'. Western medical trainging doesn;t get them very far in the world of AP/OM. As often is pointed out....the World Health Organization did a study back in 1996 that clearly states that for an MD or DO to practice UP TO THE level of the qualified acupuncturist they need at least 1500 hours of clinical/didactic education and then take a substantially recognized test. The failure of W.H.O. was to say that if an MD wanted to sort of fool around (italics are my words) with acupuncture and use it adjunctively they would only need 200 hours of clinical/didactic education. Let's get real here. Of course there is always an exception. Could there be an MD who might be better than the best qualified (non-MD) acupuncturist? Absolutely a resounding YES. But don't believe that there are too many. Richard Richard A. Freiberg, OMD, NMD Founder/Director AOMNC www.aomnc.com > I strongly recommend that you find > another > practitioner, this time one that has enough clinical > experience, who > is NOT an M.D. as well, and that you can hear > recommendations of his > skill. > Shmuel Halevi Ph.D > http://www.acumedico.com Just curious, why do you so strongly recommend against seeing an MD? Also, what about an MD-acupuncturist? Just curious. Bernard Kim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 6, 2003 Report Share Posted November 6, 2003 acupuncture , Berns <bernard_m_kim> wrote: > > I strongly recommend that you find > > another > > practitioner, this time one that has enough clinical > > experience, who > > is NOT an M.D. as well, and that you can hear > > recommendations of his > > skill. > > Shmuel Halevi Ph.D > > http://www.acumedico.com > > Just curious, why do you so strongly recommend against > seeing an MD? Also, what about an MD-acupuncturist? > Just curious. > > Bernard Kim I probably didn't phrase it right. I recommend seeing a Chinese medicine practitioner who is not an M.D. Not that I am against seing an M.D., of course. The reason is that most of them, in my experience, have a problem interpreting medical disorders into Chinese medical concepts and understanding. They usually define the problem in Western terms, i.e. cystitis and not Damp-Heat pouring into the bladder for instance, and treat it symptomatically. I also, unfortunately, did not meet an M.D. who practices acupuncture that I could say: ah, this guy meets the standards of practice and results that I expect of Chinese medical practitioner per se. www.acumedico.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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