Guest guest Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 Hi Folks, This is my first post to TCM digest and I am doing some market research. I'd like to know if any of the membership here reads Acupuncture Today and what your opinion of that publication actually is. Appreciate any responses... can also respond directly to me at honora Thanks to all for your time, Honora Lee Wolfe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 Hi Honora, Yes, I do indeed read Acupuncture Today. I even have my own column there now, titled 'Research Methods'. What I would say about Acupuncture Today, is that is needs to be more international rather than just focusing on the States. Same goes for this group. Kind regards Attilio D'Alberto Doctor of (Beijing, China) BSc (Hons) TCM MATCM 07786198900 attiliodalberto <http://www.attiliodalberto.com/> www.attiliodalberto.com Chinese Medicine Chinese Medicine On Behalf Of Honora 26 April 2005 20:29 Chinese Medicine Acupuncture Today readership Hi Folks, This is my first post to TCM digest and I am doing some market research. I'd like to know if any of the membership here reads Acupuncture Today and what your opinion of that publication actually is. Appreciate any responses... can also respond directly to me at honora Thanks to all for your time, Honora Lee Wolfe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 27, 2005 Report Share Posted April 27, 2005 Honora wrote: > Hi Folks, > This is my first post to TCM digest and I am doing some market research. I'd like to know if any of the membership here reads Acupuncture Today and what your opinion of that publication actually is. > Appreciate any responses... can also respond directly to me at > honora Hi Honora! I love your web site. I read Acupuncture Today, but it appears to me that they will advertise anything without any standards for content or copy. It makes it more of a trade paper than a professional journal, and makes us more tradespersons than doctors. Mind you, it is not the quality of the articles, but the unselective advertising policy. Yes, I know they have to make a living. Regards, Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 27, 2005 Report Share Posted April 27, 2005 Hi Honora Yes. I do read AT Today....or more accurately quickly scan it ....and rarely glean anything useful. As a matter of fact I'd have to say that sometimes I find some of the articles embarrasing! It certainly doesn't represent my reality as a practitioner nor any vision I would articulate for our proffession. Oh well......hope no feelings are hurt. Turiya Hill - Honora Chinese Medicine Tuesday, April 26, 2005 12:29 PM Acupuncture Today readership Hi Folks, This is my first post to TCM digest and I am doing some market research. I'd like to know if any of the membership here reads Acupuncture Today and what your opinion of that publication actually is. Appreciate any responses... can also respond directly to me at honora Thanks to all for your time, Honora Lee Wolfe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 27, 2005 Report Share Posted April 27, 2005 Whilst I have read some things that were 'kind of interesting' in Acupuncture Today, you really cannot compare it with quality papers like, say, the Journal of . I wonder what the mission of AT is? Does anybody know? The thing with the articles is that they always seem to wet your appetite, and when they have done so, they just stop. All the time! Tom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 27, 2005 Report Share Posted April 27, 2005 Dear, Honora I try to read AT regularly. I find few article very informative, and many are not (my suspicion are written for exposure value). I am very glad when I find your article in AT or your own site. Good luck Peter Pavolotsky --- Honora <honora wrote: Hi Folks, This is my first post to TCM digest and I am doing some market research. I'd like to know if any of the membership here reads Acupuncture Today and what your opinion of that publication actually is. Appreciate any responses... can also respond directly to me at honora Thanks to all for your time, Honora Lee Wolfe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 27, 2005 Report Share Posted April 27, 2005 Honora, I would be happy to participate in this. I do review AT both online and print frequently, mainly to check on employment openings as I plan to move back to So Cal in the future. I would say that the AT articles are less than stellar and seem to give an unrealistic view of the profession. Things are watered down and not really applicable. The articles seem most likely to address patients than us or to under-educate us. They also seem more interested in politically promoting acupuncture by ANYONE rather then US. There is room for a forum that addresses more of our concerns whether they be clinical, education or practice related. I would love to contribute to such an endeavor. Please let me know if there is room. Thanks Mike W. Bowser, L Ac > " Honora " <honora >Chinese Medicine ><Chinese Medicine > > Acupuncture Today readership >Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:29:25 -0600 > >Hi Folks, >This is my first post to TCM digest and I am doing some market research. >I'd like to know if any of the membership here reads Acupuncture Today and >what your opinion of that publication actually is. >Appreciate any responses... can also respond directly to me at >honora > >Thanks to all for your time, >Honora Lee Wolfe > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 27, 2005 Report Share Posted April 27, 2005 There is another problem I face with Acupuncture Today, and that is in the way they work with contributed articles. If you write for them, you have to sign away all your rights to your original work. More dreadful, something you created over hours and days, if not weeks and months, is now their property, and they reserve the right to translate it into Swahili, so to say, and worst of all, edit it to suit a purpose all their own. If you have anything written which they have published, be certain that it may be changed to at any time with no notice to you, and you with as much say in the matter as any bystander on the other side of the world. I have worked closely with the editor, and I think he is a great professional, and much like his Tribe I have worked with from Kalahari to Camden Town. It is the policy of the periodical which is faulted. If I ever float something and have people to write in it, I will see to it that the work belongs to them and their children's children to follow. To me, what you write, and what lives vibrant in you, are one and the same. One cannot be trammeled, without trespass on the other. Holmes mike Bowser wrote: > Honora, > > I would be happy to participate in this. I do review AT both online and > print frequently, mainly to check on employment openings as I plan to > move > back to So Cal in the future. > > I would say that the AT articles are less than stellar and seem to > give an > unrealistic view of the profession. Things are watered down and not > really > applicable. The articles seem most likely to address patients than us > or to > under-educate us. They also seem more interested in politically > promoting > acupuncture by ANYONE rather then US. There is room for a forum that > addresses more of our concerns whether they be clinical, education or > practice related. I would love to contribute to such an endeavor. > Please > let me know if there is room. Thanks > > > > Mike W. Bowser, L Ac > > > > > " Honora " <honora > >Chinese Medicine > ><Chinese Medicine > > > Acupuncture Today readership > >Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:29:25 -0600 > > > >Hi Folks, > >This is my first post to TCM digest and I am doing some market > research. > >I'd like to know if any of the membership here reads Acupuncture > Today and > >what your opinion of that publication actually is. > >Appreciate any responses... can also respond directly to me at > >honora > > > >Thanks to all for your time, > >Honora Lee Wolfe > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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