October, 2008

(Note: This letter also appears in its entirety in the 'Dear Board' forum for CAN suscribers. The current board felt it was important for all CAN readers - members or not - to have access to this letter as well, outside of the forums.)

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Last week I spent 3 of the best days of my life. I was in the company of like-minded, like-hearted acupuncturists who put the patients first and strive to do good in the world. After 2 years of only they know how much work, time and money put into CAN, WCA turned CAN over to the new CAN board, which has no WCA personnel aboard.

CAN's annual board meeting took place at The Green House across from Working Class Acupuncture in Portland, OR on Thursday October, 23rd.

CAN's new board is comprised of:

A primary motivator for proponents of the first professional doctorate in the acupuncture profession is access to and acceptance within the western medical care model.  This infuses the existing dominant medical paradigm with their own essence and relabels it "integrative medicine".  While a collective professional inferiority complex is outside the scope of this piece, we would d

We took my two sons to Rehoboth Beach in Delaware this summer, their first trip to the ocean. Midwestern natives, the boys and I grew-up on Lake Michigan’s shores, comfortably viewing the Great Lake’s waters as far as the eyes could see. But the saltiness, the beachiness, the waviness of the Atlantic all presented new experiences for my young clan.

A new model of practice.  In case folks haven't seen this, a recent grad from a TCM school in the UK sent me the article after completing research on such facilities for his final year research paper.  Looks like ideas are spreading!  Here is a link to the article which was published in this months Journal of Chinese Medicine.  http://www.jcm.co.uk/catalogue.php?catID=203&opener=0-195

This past weekend I was in Portland, attending Acupuncturists Without Borders "Healing Community Trauma" training. Since its founding by Diana Fried in September of 2005, following Hurricane Katrina, AWB has evolved into one of the leading acupuncture professional groups with a social conscience. 

You can’t keep a bunch of single minded, greedy mothafuc@#$a’s down. 

In August there was a lot of discussion on the blog Can CA go Deep?

I began this blog on 10/1/08

The Social Psychology Theoryof Social Proof and the Community Acupuncture Model

By Krista L. Hite

September 28, 2008

I haven’t spent a night in my own home since June 27th.

check out this link to see what I've been up to lately.  It  really just started to keep him out of my hair for awhile, but it seems to have really taken off - http://www.tsgnet.com/pres.php?id=370617&altf=Tljq&altl=Wbo1Nfufs

I have found that the most valuable workshops are the one’s that you can apply the next day after taking them. Richard Tan workshops are like that for me. The Jingei pulse diagnosis DVD produced by WCA and Skip Van Meter is another. It is something you can watch and then implement immediately. 
 

hello everyone.
i'm editing an anthology about community acupuncture and would love to read what you have to say about this. the end product will be a little zine we all can have in our clinics. sort of like a "little red book" format, with pieces by all kinds of practitioners, patients, volunteers, and anyone who is involved in this movement.

At 7pm tonight I was pretty pooped. Between 830am and 7pm, I had treated about 38 patients. Another acupunk friend had treated another 8 during one busy stretch in the morning. At one point, seven patients walked through the door simultaneously. Three of them had walkers.

the American Acupuncture Council is here to help!!! 

If you are opposed to a taxpayer bailout of Wall Street and