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Now this:

  http://www.adamkuby.com/Acupuncture.html

 is interesting.  Being an acupunk and an urban planner (I have TWO Master's degrees in science!) I'd love to know if there's any thought behind this statement:

"This project explores the junction between art, regional planning, the environment, asian medicine, and the health of a city." 

Anyone want to help me in understanding this? 

All-  One of the questions we got from the New York workshops was how can one set up a CA practice where the rent is so high?  Lisa and I answered this too ways:  First that's a problem that all acupuncturists face, not just CA acupuncturists.  Second we have Lumiel's clinic in San Rafael to use as a model.  Her clinic is in a very high rent district and if she can do it solo practitioners anywhere can do it.  I wrote about her clinic last September and below I have rescued that post for all to read and ponder.

First, I want to second what Lisa says below about our great NYC weekend.  Its always great to get out of your comfort zone to get some perspective and this happened for us.  

This morning I revisited something I wrote about in the forums a year and a half ago. Back then I said that it felt like the capacity of WCA topped out at about 80%, meaning that once we filled about 80% of our slots it became increasingly hard to fill the remainder because it got increasingly harder for patients to find open slots that met their time constraints. (This is a variation of the difficulties one faces when moving at speeds close to the speed of light. .)

When I first wrote this some folks had slightly different percentages for their clinics. Makes sense- results will vary.

The other day I had a new patient and like I usually do I asked her how she found out about us.  She replied that her doctor recommended us.  That in itself is not that unusual for us because we get several referrals a month from doctors who we've never talked to.  Usually we find out that the doctor in question found out about us because one or more patients of his are also patients of ours and heard great things about us, especially the price and so he recommends our clinic.

This case was a bit different however.  This doctor had no patients who knew of us.  Instead this guy found out about us because the place he works had a link to us and sometime previously he looked into the link!  The place he works? The Providence Hospital chain.  Here's the link: http://www.providence.org/oregon/for_employers/employee_assistance/e40Resources.htm

Much like Dwight Eisenhower envinsioned a national network of superhighways and John Kennedy thought of landing a man on the moon   , the CAN website is undergoing a huge reconstruction so that it can handle the needs of everyone who uses it.

Much of the work you'll never see as it entails making the site more flexible so that future changes will happen much more easily than otherwise. Still we can already see some changes like the different login proceedure or the look of the forums. Unfortunately as part of the makeover some previous features were temporarily disabled: private messaging, "mark forums as read", and others are gone now but will be back soon: later this week.