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"There is much more involved in the healer-patient relationship than just going by the books and looking up the appropriate medicine…. You do not have to acquire skillful communication from outside yourself; you have it already.

On the heels of Justine's post on ACMAC, I would like to share a piece written by one of my students at AIMC- Berkeley at the end of our Community Acupuncture Practice Development class. Thanks, Aracely for allowing me to post this!

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Over Labor Day weekend, a small group of acupuncturists, acupuncture students and our community clinic volunteers gathered at my house to view the documentary Finding Normal and to have a discussion about it as well as Lisa Rohleder’s blog posts on the movie.

My life partner's daughter Hannah (11 years old) recently read Acupuncture is Like Noodles. Through the reading, she asked only a couple of questions, and every time I aksed her if she understood what she was reading, she said "yes". As Hannah is an aspiring writer, I asked if she would like to write someting about the book. This what she wrote:

Hi folks. This month I would like to share with you an essay one of my students wrote at the end of our Community Acupuncture Practice Development (that's quite a mouthful) class at AIMC in Berkeley. Linda is a first year acupuncture student and she stumbled upon my class when she and a classmate sat in on the first session. I am grateful that she gave me permission to share this:

As some of you know, my business partner Pam has written some good stuff about our movement. She is also not a frequent visitor to CAN, so sometimes I try to "channel" her through.

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This morning I caught an interesting interview on NPR's "To the Best of Our Knowledge", produced by Wisconsin Public Radio. It was with Harvard economics professor Stephen Marglin, who wrote a book: The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community.

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I posted this in the Forums, but thought I'd re-post here in order to give more folks access. This article is called: How Community Clinics Can Transform Acupuncture and was written by my business partner, Pam Chang, of the Yes! / Utne fame.

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First off, I want to apologize for not keeping up with my blogging obligations in the last few months. I have been a bit pre-occupied since we opened our clinic, Sarana Community Acupuncture in March of this year. I will attempt to be more consistent.

 

Skip’s “Chickens Coming Home to Roost” http://www.communityacupuncturenetwork.org/blog/chickens-coming-home-roo... post got me thinking about the whole acupuncture school issue. I wonder how the market correction he is referring to will change the acu schools. I wonder if many of them will just close doors or get creative and re-invent themselves. I hope it is the latter and I have some ideas about what a great acupuncture school could be that I
will share in this posting.

 

Lately I have been a total slacker blogger by asking others to write stuff for me to post. And so I am at it again. This month I asked my fabulous business partner Pam Chang to write about her experiences of opening a new CA clinic as a newly licensed practitioner. Some of you know Pam's great article in Yes! magazine, but she is a pretty quiet person and doesn't usually post on CAN. I thought it was time folks got to know her better.

Just a few little numbers before I let Pam take the stage: we have been open for almost 8 weeks. We have given a total of 221 treatments. We made a profit in our first full month (April) and were able to pay ourselves a little bit. We are having a great time! - tatyana

ok, here's Pam's post:

On Opening Sarana Community Acupuncture
by Pamela O’Malley Chang, April 2008

I am posting below a guest blog from my sweetie, Paul, describing our new clinic.

I will just preface it with a couple of comments:

We are in Albany, CA, just north of Berkeley.

We had a lovely "soft opening" last Wednesday. We treated 20 people in the first two days of business.

We are currently open 3 days a week and have 30 appointments booked for the upcoming week!

Later this week we are having a space-clearing and blessing ceremony and we plan to have an opening reception sometime in the next month or two.

Our website is here: http://www.saranacommunityacupuncture.com

Photos are here: http://picasaweb.google.com/sarana.acu/SaranaCommunityAcupuncture

-tatyana

Paul's blog: