CA Acupuncture Board is history, but not just us

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CA's regulatory nightmare is about to end. The guvinator does some good

 

 

 

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> Jack Miller <jmiller

> January 26, 2005 2:47:15 PM PST

> <faculty-sd

> Info on the CA Acupuncture Board

>

> Last month, California acupuncturists received hyperbolic

> proclamations from

> our state professional organization that acupuncture was " under

> attack " due

> to the state's sunset review of the performance of the CA Acupuncture

> Board.

> I sent out a differing view that this was an expected process and that

> the

> profession of Acupuncture was not under attack, but that the

> Acupuncture

> Board indeed would have some explaining to do. They were afforded that

> opportunity. Yesterday, Governor Schwarzenegger's Reorganization Plan

> 1,

> " REFORMING CALIFORNIA¹S BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS " was delivered to me.

> In it,

> the rationale for downsizing 88 boards is presented. Yes, the

> Acupuncture

> Board is one board that has been determined to be unnecessary...along

> with

> the medical, chiropractic, dental, pharmacy, physical therapy and many

> other

> boards. Were all these professions under attack? No, no more than

> acupuncture was. The California government has determined that these

> professions can be more effectively regulated and with more

> accountability

> and more transparency by way of the Dept. of Consumer Affairs rather

> than by

> their boards. The sky was and is not falling. Acupuncture is a

> recognized

> medicine in California, highly valued by the politicians, and more

> importantly, by the people. More so than ever! Have you seen the

> headlines

> about acupuncture's efficacy for knee arthritis in " small " papers like

> the

> Wall St. Journal, NY Times, and others?

>

> I will print the Governor's report and put it in the library and will

> send a

> copy to Info Tech for posting to our website. Below are just the

> regulatory/licensing boards that are recommended for elimination:

>

> € Board of Accountancy

> € Acupuncture Board

> € Architects Board

> € Board of Barbering and Cosmetology

> € Board of Behavioral Sciences

> € Contractors State License Board

> € Court Reporters Board

> € Dental Auxiliaries Committee

> € Dental Board

> € Board of Geologists and Geophysicists

> € State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind

> € Landscape Architects Technical Committee

> € Medical Board of California

> € Board of Occupational Therapy

> € Optometry Board

> € Board of Pharmacy

> € Physical Therapy Board

> € Physician Assistant Committee

> € Board of Pilot Commissioners for San Francisco, San Pablo Bays and

> Suisun

> € Board of Podiatric Medicine

> € Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors Board

> € Board of Psychology

> € Registered Nursing Board

> € Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians Board

> € Registered Veterinary Technicians Committee

> € Respiratory Care Board

> € Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board

> € Structural Pest Control Board

> € Veterinary Medical Board

> € Service Agency Advisory Committee

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> Jack Miller, L.Ac., M.A. (Educ.)

> President/CEO

> Pacific College of Oriental Medicine

> jmiller

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> and present the theories and practices of Oriental medicine, together

> with

> its traditional and modern derivations, in order that its graduates may

> deliver effective patient care. "

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