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Rory,

 

> Who is not permitting, or who is prohibiting, a more competitive

> intellectual environment?

 

Circumstance. People come to CM school to get licensed, so they do what

they are told they must do to be licensed. Since that is largely to

demonstrate that they have learned the conceptions offered by a small set of

texts that reflect a particular view, most graduates appear to be entirely

unware of anything else.

 

bob

 

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505 758 7758 Taos, New Mexico 87571

 

 

 

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At 12:23 PM -0600 9/30/03, Robert L. Felt wrote:

> > Who is not permitting, or who is prohibiting, a more competitive

>> intellectual environment?

>

>Circumstance. People come to CM school to get licensed, so they do what

>they are told they must do to be licensed. Since that is largely to

>demonstrate that they have learned the conceptions offered by a small set of

>texts that reflect a particular view, most graduates appear to be entirely

>unware of anything else.

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Bob,

 

I agree with you in part. However, I wouldn't put this result

entirely, or even mostly, down to circumstance. I'd put it down

largely to lack of curiosity, or perhaps mental energy, on the part

of a large percentage of those going through school. For example,

there are programs out there that offer considerably more breadth and

depth than others, yet the majority of students deliberately avoid

these schools and choose the less demanding programs, even when they

are situated in the same square mile.

 

Furthermore, how many practitioners take the trouble to seek further

training, or follow a senior practitioner in their early years of

practice? How many have a journal subscriptions? How many read the

available books of good quality that describe the history of Chinese

medicine in some detail? (you should know the answer to that one!)

 

These are all choices that can be made by individuals, and it's no

secret that these things are available.

 

Rory

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