M.D.s as allies not enemies - the strategy

[Guest guest]

Nancy -

Just wanted to say that your attitude is awesome, and I am really happy

that there ARE many MD's and DO's who take the art seriously - when I

get acupuncture myself, it's by a DO, who's also my family physician.

 

In terms of strategy, what we need is to get you folks on the air

telling people when these stories come up to only go to NCCAOM (or

California's Board's) certified practioners. When you get your training,

start making contacts with local media. Let them know you are available

for comment when one of these stories comes up. Ask who the health

reporter is. Even offer to pen a free guest column or something, or

offer yourself as an interview subject. They will love that you are an

MD. If you can do this, then you will influence a whole lot of potential

acupuncture patients to go to the right practitioners. Thanks for you

hard work and dedication.

 

-Ben Hawes, L.Ac.

 

 

Re: M.D.s as allies not enemies

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Sat Oct 6, 2007 7:47 pm (PST)

 

 

 

Touche, so how do you propose to fight? Whinning isn't going to do it,

being disjointed as a group isn't going to do it. There are a lot of

closed

minds out there. I am third generation western medicine, my niece who is

about to graduate will be 4th generation. I am going to take so much

******

flack to going into a TCM program, there will be jokes galore for

who knows

how long, but I am strong inside and strong in my beliefs so I will

be able

to handle it. I already see the reaction on collegues faces when I tell

them, some think it's great and others you would think I had personally

betrayed them. But what is the answer? And how do you stop the 100 hour

weekend programs? I see them advertised in the health papers

(actually I see

more like 500 hour programs) and then I look at the fact that I

won't touch

a needle near a person for almost 2 years and it makes me fume with

anger.

However there is a nationwide exam and certification. Those 100 hour

people

can't possible meet the requirements to sit for that exam.

 

Does the exam give you the ability to say you have particular

certification?

If so it becomes also a matter of patient education.

 

There are some battles against the institution of medicine you will

probably

not win, though the walls are crumbling a bit with 'new discoveries'

they

are making about the mind body connection LOL. The journals are

starting to

fill with such articles. They write like they have discovered some new

revolutionary idea instead of something that has been known for

1000's of

years.

 

I truly believe in the person who said you need to take pride in

your work

and believe in what you do and people will come to you.

 

The problem becomes when people go for acupuncture by someone poorly

trained

and it doesn't work and then they declare it a 'bad treatment' I

have heard

this from patients often.