on-line consultations

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Hi Michael,

 

I had approached the California Acu Board with this very same question about a

year ago, and received a very different reply from them than you did.  They told

me that, because the state regulations for acupuncture practice require tongue

and pulse diagnosis, I couldn't legally make any recommendations as an

acupuncturist without assessing the tongue and pulse.  I had looked at your

website around that time, and was intrigued to see that you have patients send

you a photo of their tongue.  I was wondering how you got around the issue of

assessing the pulse...

 

Anyway, I was looking at the feasibility of offering online consultations

myself, and was dissuaded.  I also was wondering about how to offer

consultations to people living in states in which I wasn't licensed, and what

kind of legal barriers there might be to that as well.  I didn't ask the CA Acu

Board about charging a fee for such consultations, and I was thinking along the

lines of offering more general recommendations to interested parties, sort of

like triage, rather than to offering to make herbal recommendations without

seeing them.  They did offer to review a proposal if I were to draft one and

send it to them, but they said it was unlikely to be viewed favorably.

 

I hope this is useful, and I am interested in hearing more on this issue,

especially from practitioners who currently do this.

 

Andrea Beth

 

Traditional Oriental Medicine

Happy Hours in the CALM Center

1770 E. Villa Drive, Suite 5

Cottonwood, AZ  86326

(928) 274-1373

 

online health consultations

 

 

Do any of you know whether we can offer online health consultations? The

 

California Acupuncture board said there was no problem with this but then

 

I've heard differently from some. I imagine it or we would not be covered by

 

insurance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Tierra