Guest guest Posted July 4, 2005 Report Share Posted July 4, 2005 In a message dated 7/1/05 1:35:31 PM, Chinese Medicine writes: << Hi Matt! If I recall correctly it costs something on the order of $30 per year to join the AMA. If any group is to equal the AMA's penetration they will have to be reasonable in their dues. AOMNC is free. <http://www.aomnc.com/> Regards, Pete >> yes - look at the totals of their membership and then look at the number of acupuncturists that are practicing - In that scenario we should be paying about $2,000 a year for dues! robbee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 5, 2005 Report Share Posted July 5, 2005 TashiDelay wrote: > In a message dated 7/1/05 1:35:31 PM, > Chinese Medicine writes: ; > If I recall correctly it costs something on the order of $30 per year > to join the AMA. If any group is to equal the AMA's penetration they > will have to be reasonable in their dues. > > AOMNC is free. <http://www.aomnc.com/> > > Regards, > > Pete >> > > yes - look at the totals of their membership and then look at the > number of acupuncturists that are practicing - In that scenario we > should be paying about $2,000 a year for dues! robbee Hi Robbee! And yet, AOMNC is free. <http://www.aomnc.com/>! Regards, Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 5, 2005 Report Share Posted July 5, 2005 Hi Robbee, Actually, when I re-read my message after I sent it, I thought I should have made more clear that I understood you were advocating individuals to be more involved and not opposed to organizations doing their own public education/relations. Sorry for that. The problem as I see it, is not that we don't have organizations doing some PR, but that we have several doing their own versions with no cohesive, profession-wide long-range plan. Having one organization that speaks for the whole profession (or at least close to it) would get us much further than different groups doing their own thing as we have now. It would not take much money at all to put together a productive long-range plan. What it would take is something that our profession has even less of than money: constructive cooperation. Around 15 years ago, I had a patient who was a media consultant for a public relations firm who graciously spent several hours educating me about how an organization could roll-out a low cost (mainly print media) campaign. She even offered to do a free training for the Executive Committee of the organization I was involved with at that time.They turned her down! Since that time, I have tried on more than one occasion to get different organizations to seriously consider this strategy. I recently made an offer to explain this strategy to the leadership of the AOMAlliance and the AAOM. The EO of the Alliance was quite enthusiastic about the idea but I never heard back from the AAOM. I have always felt that if I were ever given the opportunity to make a formal presentation to the leadership of the national groups, they would be in favor of this plan. I understand how difficult it is to be in the leadership of these types of groups. You put in many uncompensated hours and usually get far more criticism from members of the profession than thanks. Everyone's plate is very full and when someone comes out of the blue with big ideas, the first thought is that there is no way to take on big, new projects. I am not criticizing anyone, I have just been waiting a long time to share the information I was given those years ago. As a student of the I-Ching, I know how important the right timing is and feel that, for whatever reasons, the timing has not yet been right. Regards, Matthew Bauer - TashiDelay Chinese Medicine Monday, July 04, 2005 3:48 PM Re: Digest Number 1033 In a message dated 7/1/05 1:35:31 PM, Chinese Medicine writes: << I have to say that while I agree with Robbee that practitioners can and should do what they can contribute, I disagree that we don't need an organization to be working on this. We desperately need an organization to take this on as such an organization would gain instant credibility with the popular media that individuals cannot acheive. >> Matt Just a Point of Information - I did not say we do not need 'organizations' - I said we do not need to be ORGANIZED to have practitioners writing to their local media to set the record straight - or to just write an article for publication about a 'featured' condition. Folks can do that following their own motivation. Practitiones need to understand that they themselves need to be proactive and responsible for how we are perceived. The organizations, (certainly the AAOM which I can speak for) definitely do handle the media. They are routinely contacted for fact finding and interview subjects. With all things they could definitely be more proactive - but to do that, they need the funds to hire professional PR reps and not just rely on practitioners to do the job . We have been in a catch 22 for many years, growing as a profession, but with too few practitioners to support the growth, hopefully soon this will begin to balance intself. robbee http://babel.altavista.com/ and adjust accordingly. If you are a TCM academic and wish to discuss TCM with other academics, click on this link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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