TCM - grandfathering in as an doctor

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In a message dated 5/18/06 8:33:56 AM, DrGRPorter writes:

 

 

> We had a discussion some weeks back about how some practitioner had missed 

> diagnosing cancer, and instead had treated someone for back pain for a very

> long  time without good results.

>

 

I didn't chime in earlier on the above discussion, but now want to add

(probably obvious to many) that MD's also miss the diagnosis of cancer in some

instances. I can name 4 people I knew well (under the age of 50) who spent 1-3

yrs going from doctor to doctor before cancer was finally diagnosed. (all have

since died) I think when the only symptom of the cancer is pain, it often

remains undiagnosed for longer than it should.

 

I should mention that all the people I knew had backgrounds in dance and were

relatively young, and because of that, I think the doctors assumed the pain

was musculoskeletal.

 

---RoseAnne S.

 

 

 

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Dear Guy and RoseAnne,

 

The issue you are addressing is precisely why grandfathering us to a doctorate

should be viewed as an anachronism, whose window has closed. If we are to

become " doctors " we need to earn that privilege by reaching a higher level, of

not just competence or proficiency, but excellence. Mediocrity is the assumed

status quo and lowest common denominator with western as well as Asian medical

practitioners, and that is one of the two reasons why we have been legislated

out of certain more complicated procedures. The other is obviously political.

It is mediocrity (and arrogance) which allows for misdiagnosis, and it is

mediocrity which I would hope a doctorate would minimize. (I can't assume the

same for arrogance!) I want to be a supurb agent for healing, competent and

unpretentious, yet bold and creative and that is why I want to find a doctoral

program that will take me despite not being able to attend on Friday night or

Saturday. Hopefully I'll find such a program.

 

Respectfully,

 

Yehuda Frischman, L.Ac.

 

ra6151 wrote:

 

In a message dated 5/18/06 8:33:56 AM, DrGRPorter writes:

 

 

> We had a discussion some weeks back about how some practitioner had missed

> diagnosing cancer, and instead had treated someone for back pain for a very

> long time without good results.

>

 

I didn't chime in earlier on the above discussion, but now want to add

(probably obvious to many) that MD's also miss the diagnosis of cancer in some

instances. I can name 4 people I knew well (under the age of 50) who spent 1-3

yrs going from doctor to doctor before cancer was finally diagnosed. (all have

since died) I think when the only symptom of the cancer is pain, it often

remains undiagnosed for longer than it should.

 

I should mention that all the people I knew had backgrounds in dance and were

relatively young, and because of that, I think the doctors assumed the pain

was musculoskeletal.

 

---RoseAnne S.