Blogs

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

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.

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?

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:

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.

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.

Lisa and Steven lay out most of the gist of the story about the upcoming problems for-profit schools will face when and if the new Dept of Education rules become effective within the next two years.  This article from “inside higher ed” takes a stab at explaining things from another angle.  Try understanding these rules!  HA!  good luck!

For what happened last Friday.

Here's the poem:

Home to Roost

Hi all,

As I'm sure everybody has noticed by now, I've had a lingering case of Internet Fatigue. I can't seem to make myself write much of anything -- posts, comments, emails, all of them are like pulling teeth and consequently most of them aren't happening at all.

Whew! kinda quiet here in blog land lately, so i'll go for the obvious: happy independence day, comrades! just a little thought ramble...

We've been in our new clinic space for about 3 weeks now.  Saturday is our first Open House/Free Day.  Part of me has been busy and even overwhelmed with all the logistics of the new space and trying to get the word out.  My old friend, anxiety, has kept me up several nights this week with worries about bills, the lease, etc.  What if no one comes?  What if things don't take off?

The other day Lisa Rohleder and I did a small counting exercise. We counted all the clinics listed on CAN's Locate a Clinic page that are in the US and Canada. We counted 142. While doing that we also counted how many of those clinics attended one of our (Working Class Acupuncture's) workshops on Community Acupuncture.

I’ve been living in Shanghai for 3 ½ years now and I’ve interned in two of Shanghai’s main hospitals: Shuguang Hospital and Yueyang Hospital. I’ve been asked to share some thoughts on the similarities between TCM as it is currently practiced in China and Community Acupuncture.

Acupuncture in China