LHC report

[Guest guest]

an interesting statement from the LHC report. it suggests to me that

the state of CA has no intention of ever mandating an entry level

doctorate as master's training meets the needs of the scope. They have

chosen instead to clarify (and basically restrict) our scope to the

current level of training instead. They are thus tacitly supporting

(for now) a multi-tiered profession (as the second tier has already

been authorized). As you know, I have also supported multi-tiers, the

main ones being my positions on limiting unnecessary societal costs and

minimizing government regulation into the practice of any profession.

With regard to herbology, it is already legal to practice it as an

unlicensed herbalist in CA. So it would seem ludicrous to mandate an

entry level DAOM for ourselves when the state has already decided that

no formal education is necessary to legally practice herbology. These

laws are all about acupuncture and really have little or nothing to do

with herbology. Dave Molony of AAOM likes to point out that most

states that licensed acupuncturists do not include herbology in their

scope. However as long as you have no need to practice acupuncture,

the state cannot constrain your herbal practice. Just give up your

license. Roger Wicke has proved that this is legal in all 50 states

and has an ongoing challenge to anyone who can show a case of

prosecution for practicing herbology as long as one does not claim to

be a physician (HINT: juries have acquitted all such defendants over

the past 200 years with zero exceptions). Whatever ACAOM or NOMAA

decides, I suspect few if any states will ever manadate an entry level

DAOM as it serves no public need (as goes CA, so goes the country). We

are the only state so heavily controlled by democrats and we rejected

it. Repubs will have nothing to do with such chicanery and they

control most statehouses. I think the most telling statement below is

the one that refer to using the board to try and increase professional

status. I have always thought this was reprehensible and now it has

been made clear that the state of CA will have no hand in the

disgusting ploys of some in our field to consolidate power.

 

" The profession has sought to elevate its standing through the

regulatory process. While educational requirements were recently

raised, the profession asserts that still higher minimum standards

are needed to achieve ÒparityÓ with Western primary health care

providers. The purpose of the governmentÕs educational

requirements, however, is clear and limited to preparing entry-level

practitioners to perform their scope of practice. They are not

intended to serve as a measure of professional status or to favor one

sector of the profession over another. "

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

At 8:37 AM -0700 10/6/04, wrote:

>LHC report

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For the sake of those of us who inhabit the rest of the USA and the

World, what is LHC? Does it have a web site?

 

TIA

 

Rory

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[Guest guest]

At 5:33 PM -0400 10/6/04, Rory Kerr wrote:

>For the sake of those of us who inhabit the rest of the USA and the

>World, what is LHC? Does it have a web site?

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Never mind...Little Hoover Commission. I must learn to read my email

in order of receipt.

 

Rory

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