Our Mission....
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.Practitioners and Students interested in Community Acupuncture....
Do you ever wonder what it would be like to stop complaining about what’s wrong with healthcare in America, and actually
DO something about it?How about joining an online community of acupuncturists who are not only doing something, but who will share all the nuts and bolts of how you can transform your practice into something that not only makes your living but embodies your ideals? To become a member join CAN.
First Professional Doctorate Discussions....
For a public discussion of the first professional
doctorate, click here
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.
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
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
Finally! Dr. Michael Smith's Lecture from WCA's 2009 October Revolution
Posted 9:47pm March 9th, 2010 by Lisafer
In 11 separate 10 minute segments. Here is the first.
Representation, Repression, and Recliners: a Feminist Defense of the Fool
Posted 8:17pm March 7th, 2010 by Lisafer
My AAAOM-SO Essay
Posted 11:25pm March 2nd, 2010 by The Zang Fool
The following is my submission to the AAAOM-Student Organization’s $1000 essay writing contest, whose Facebook club I am a member of I have been tossed off of(pun becomes relevant later). I hope to be the winner, and an inside source assures me that my victory is inevitable.
The View from the Parking Strip
Posted 9:54pm February 28th, 2010 by Lisafer
When I'm really, really mad, the best thing for me to do is to garden. Garden HARD.
acu high school
Posted 7:24pm February 25th, 2010 by moses
yesterday, amid my busy schedule of many other things going on, I gave a fun and interactive talk for a local high school class. We talked for an hour about acupuncture in general and then community acu specifically.
Acupuncture report from Haiti
Posted 4:42am February 23rd, 2010 by river Jordan
I've been in Port au Prince, Haiti for the past 4 days, as part of a team of medical professionals with TIMA (Tzu Chi International Medical Association).
My experiences and days have been rich and I won't be able to adequately describe them in the 15 minutes I have to type this message and get ready to see patients for the day.
FPD and ACAOM for the gold!
Posted 8:01pm February 22nd, 2010 by Lisafer
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.
Learning to Say No
Posted 5:51am February 22nd, 2010 by emily
Many times last year I got requests I couldn't accommodate. Chiropractors offering to rent me a treatment room in their office, patients wanting private treatments, acupuncturists and other colleagues asking if I would do home visits. Every time, I had to say no.
AcuMartyr
Posted 8:36am February 19th, 2010 by AcuMartyr
Welcome to the world of AcuMartyr --- a complicated superhero dedicated to defending acupuncture’s sacred, eternal, and immutable values established by the consensus of our venerable ancestors. Empowered by ancient wisdom, pop-psychology jargon, and new age insight, AcuMartyr communicates only through profound affirmations.
GUEST BLOG: "Our Path to the Future" by Elaine Wolf Komarow, L.Ac.
Posted 2:08pm February 15th, 2010 by Jessica Feltz W...
Where everyone knows your name.
Posted 5:31pm February 10th, 2010 by priceless
I write to you from my eyrie with 13 windows and a whole top floor above one of those coffee shops where everyone really does know your name.
Road to 10,000
Posted 9:59am February 7th, 2010 by keithananda
I have a confession to make, recently I had a chance to do something, something I haven’t done in seven years, something dear to my heart, and so utterly addicting (to me), I just have to come clean and fess up: I… went…. snowboarding. Weee-hoooo!
Guest post by Rebecca Parker: The difference $5 makes...
Posted 1:47pm February 6th, 2010 by ellengrover
