Blogs
for new practitioners who have considered boutiques and hybrids and fpds when acupuncture is enuf*
Posted January 2nd, 2009 by Nora
duh Qi…de qi!
Posted December 26th, 2008 by The Zang Fool
The Integrator Blog notices Disintegrative Medicine is on the rise, Mark Seem lets the entry-level cat out of the bag…too bad it’s road kill, AAAOM provides a forum for conversation that it can’t totally control and PCOM finally figures out how to separate the branch from the root…with Community-Style Acupuncture!
Here's your chance to act, and deepen your Community bonds locally - Have a meeting in your acu-center by Dec 31st !
Posted December 23rd, 2008 by keithananda
Do you have a passion for changing the way health care works (or doesn't work in our country)? um, hopefully, if you are reading this, the answer to that question is yes. So here's a chance for all of us to put our community acupuncture centers where our big mouths are.
Community Healthcare in "Little Tibet"
Posted December 21st, 2008 by river Jordan
Dear CAN friends,
I have been in Dharamsala, aka "Little Tibet", in the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains of Northern India for the past 6 days.
I'm Still Here Damnit!
Posted December 19th, 2008 by pindoctor
In the words of my favorite comedian Sandra Bernhard, "I'm still here, damnit." I say this more to remind myself than anyone else--athough I have fallen off CAN. After practicing for a decade, I debated this summer, heavily, as to whether or not to practice any longer.
Season's Greetings to You All
Posted December 17th, 2008 by lumiel
To express our best wishes for the Season, in English we say Merry Christmas and Happy a New Year, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa.....
The Federal Government Wants to Know What We Think about Healthcare. Really.
Posted December 16th, 2008 by Lisa Rohleder
Everybody, please take a few minutes to check out this link:
http://change.gov/agenda/health_care_agenda/
and submit your ideas. And if you feel so moved, share what you wrote with the rest of us, in a comment.
acupunk-in-residence
Posted December 13th, 2008 by korbenp
A note on synchronicity: this post apparently written simultaneously with Jordan's preceeding one.
It's wintertime in the cold, rainy mid-Atlantic; and, a boy's fancy
turns to vacation, or travel. But, just as quickly, it turns to doubting that that
can really happen while running and growing a business.
Community Acupuncture practice bonus #108
Posted December 12th, 2008 by river Jordan
I'm taking a vacation with my family. We're going to India for a month - and not a moment too soon with a blast of Arctic air and Seattle's famous liquid sunshine pelting the windows as I type. It's been a long time since I've taken a month off, and I've never taken that length of time without suspending all income streams for the duration.
AMA Reaches Agreement With ACAOM on Doctorate Degree Abbreviation
Posted December 11th, 2008 by The Zang Fool
After much contention between the American Medical Association (AMA) and the ACAOM over the proposed first professional doctorate degree in acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, a compromise was reached that will alter the healthcare acronym landscape into a terrain that can be more easily navigated by patients. The AMA has agreed to change the Medical Doctor abbreviation MD, to the new Western Med
