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Community Acupuncture Network (CAN) is a nonprofit organization of practitioners, patients, and supporters whose goal is to make acupuncture more affordable and accessible by promoting the practice of offering acupuncture in community settings for a sliding scale ranging within $15-40 a treatment.<!--
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Prick, Prod, Provoke....
Prick, Prod, Provoke… is the group blog of the Community Acupuncture Network. Its purpose is to prick, prod, and provoke both the imagination and the conscience of the acupuncture profession.
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to nee * dle, verb; synonyms: aggravate, annoy, badger, bait, bedevil, bother, examine, gnaw, goad, harass, irk, irritate, nag, nettle, pester, plague, prick, prod, provoke, question, quiz, ride, rile, ruffle, spur, sting, taunt, twit, worry
Should Acupuncture Schools Be Regulated By the Federal Government?
Posted 8:25am September 1st, 2010 by Skip
A couple of interesting comments have popped up in Lisa Rohleder's blog post, "D-O-E means Department of Education, also means DO IT, DO IT NOW!" which is five blog posts below mine here. Check it out.
https://www.communityacupuncturenetwork.org/blog/d-o-e-means-department-education-also-means-do-it-do-it-now
Two Articles by Steven Stumpf, and a Question
Posted 8:19pm August 24th, 2010 by Lisafer
So, picking up where we left off, one of the problematic things about acupuncture is that it is not, technically, a profession. It's not listed in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Directory.
AT Says NCCAOM's Terrible Numbers Are Actually Even Worse. Wait, What?!?
Posted 8:59am August 21st, 2010 by Lisafer
Thanks to the alert readers who forwarded me this article in Acupuncture Today, and particularly to the alert reader who said: Hey, where did those graphs at the end come from?
Saving Patients Money
Posted 7:51pm August 17th, 2010 by Skip
The other day John Schmeider of Community Acupuncture of St. Louis emailed Lisa and I to ask a few questions around a press release he and his partner, Bryan Wagner, were about to issue. Let me post the press release below and then we'll get into the meat of this blog post:
A good CA day
Posted 1:15pm August 14th, 2010 by melissa
when you get to share acupuncture with your community, including:
a young woman who had been put on pain killers last year for massive menstrual pain but now is left with unrelenting pain and restlessness in her legs, for which she was only offered more meds--none of which she wants to or can afford to take.
D-O-E means Department of Education, also means DO IT, DO IT NOW!
Posted 9:08pm August 6th, 2010 by Lisafer
This is a plea to all my comrades who put so much energy into opposing the FPD. The conversation that we really wanted to have last winter is finally happening now at a national level, and we need to participate. I think I must have said a hundred times during the FPD debate, I don't care what this new degree is called.
The Challenges and Rewards of Learning Master Tung's Acupuncture
Posted 5:57pm August 2nd, 2010 by thomasriordan
There's This Poem by Kay Ryan...Part 2
Posted 10:11pm July 27th, 2010 by Lisafer
In less than 6 months, the executive directors of two major acupuncture organizations resigned without explanation -- Dort Bigg of the ACAOM and Rebekah Christensen of the AAAOM. Both had held their positions for a number of years. Of course, I don't know exactly why they quit.
