Lisafer's blog

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?

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.

For what happened last Friday.

Here's the poem:

 

Home to Roost

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.

That's the big American Public Health Association Meeting this November. Big thanks to Dr. Kim Tippens and Dr. Maria Chao! Here's the link: http://apha.confex.com/apha/138am/webprogram/ACHP.html

Thank you to everyone, near and far, who helped raise money for NE Portland to get needled via the Portland Acupuncture Project. (Check out the long list of individual contributors on the Project's website -- isn't that cool?

Alert -- and irritated -- readers noted this recent entry by Bob Flaws on the Blue Poppy blog. When I first read it, I thought that I would be irritated as well. Instead, however, I was full of gratitude. I'm not being sarcastic, I was.

OK, I know everybody's tired of this particular argument, but I would
rather have it here, in a new blog post, rather than watch it play out
in increasingly skinny comment boxes.

Dear Ms. Alderman,

And thank you to Lesley Alderman, "Patient Money" columnist, for providing a link to CAN.   If you haven't seen it, the article is here.  You can comment on it here

One of the things I love most about CAN is how much important stuff gets done quietly, behind the scenes, and then appears as if by magic, just when it's needed.

I have a story about art, acupuncture, classism, and communication.

This is the first of a series of posts in which I am going to be blogging about various kinds of data. We are looking forward to the release of this research project soon, and I'm guessing that there will be plenty to talk about. And it's almost time again for CAN's yearly Locate A Clinic survey!

In 11 separate 10 minute segments. Here is the first.

When I'm really, really mad, the best thing for me to do is to garden. Garden HARD.

In the new Olympic sport of Moving the Goalposts. Or is it Gaslighting? Hard to define, but it's clear we have a winner! In this blog post, a recap of a groundbreaking performance, along with some commentary from this thoroughly embittered viewer.

Sometime last winter we came up with the bright idea of being open 365 days a year.  It was after a few people asked us if we were going to be open on Thanksgiving, and then a few more asked about New Year's Day. Some of them sounded sort of desperate, and we hate saying no to patients, so at some point Skip and Lupine and I looked at each other and said, what the hell. Let's do it.