TCM - doctor title: a new perspective

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I guess a lot of the point many would like to make is about how OM folks seem

to be the only ones who are trying to be ethical here. MD's, DO's, and DC's

are " doctors " who do acupuncture with 50 hours or more of training and with no

training necessary in herbal medicine, nor does anyone have any requirements

for herbal medicine. Meanwhile, we have a Master's degree that is closer to a

doctorate than a Master's in most fields, and lots of folks who have had to

round out their own education to practice safely and effectively while the

colleges figured out what it is we need to do so. Sure, a legislated title is

different from a degree, but it does level the playing field when a doctorate is

required to practice in a state and allows for that legislation to go thru. Is

someone with a new doctorate better clinically that a person with 20+ years

experience, as a generality? In actuality, they should be close if colleges do

their job in development of a first professional doctoral standard.

 

Now. Will a college hire a legislated doctor title holder to teach at the

doctorate level? No.

Hopefully, this will provide some thought provoking discussion.

David Molony

 

In a message dated 8/16/07 11:36:11 PM, acukath writes:

 

 

>

> first, i'd like to say that i'd love to have the professional respect that

> comes with that title. but as i've clearly stated (so won't belabor again

> here) i do not believe that we can use the title if we haven't gone through

> the academic rigours to earn it.

>

 

 

 

 

 

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circumstances people may take advantage of you. If you let someone do so, he or

she will

be engaging in an unsuitable action and accumulating bad karma that will harm

the person in the future. Thus it is permissable, with an altruistic

motivation, to take counteraction in order to prevent the other person from

having to

undergo the effects of this wrong action. "

Dalai Lama

 

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