Statitics

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Richard,

 

> Would suggest you contact the California Acupuncture Board directly as to

> any additional detail you are lookoing for but one thing - for sure - the

> 20,750 represents all current active licenses in the US. They published it

> internally and for the Little Hoover Commission.

 

Thank you.

 

> Schools have been profering a 'bill of goods' that licensees have such a

> bright future. Well....the figures/facts don't show that.

 

I think it is important that people matriculating to the CM schools

understand that there is a more to a bright future than just an education. I

may be repeating myself -- exuse me if I am repeating this -- but I have read

several hundred student " business plans " during eight years of teaching in

the 1980's and only a small portion of those plans showed the

entrepreneurial realism it takes to succeed when one must simultaenously

master clinical skills and develop a small business.

 

I personally believe that an internship transition between school and self-

employment as an independent clinician would be of great benefit to

people's survival in practice.

 

> Additionally when addressing tax data........to a certain degree it

> reflects the poor state of affairs of the profession plus not everyone

> follows IRS SIC code guidelines so I wouldn;t rely on that raw data more

> then generically.

 

Yes, I believe you are correct. That is also probably why physicians are

over-represented in the data, they are more likely to have professional

accounting help.

 

I would hesitate to draw hard-and-fast conclusions from these statistics but

it is clear they are not cause for celebration.

 

Bob

 

 

 

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