TCM - Orthopedic Surgeon interviewed on CBS morning news....day after

[Guest guest]

The difficulty is that the MD's have an unrestricted license and only in a

few states have admitted that they need ANY education to do acupuncture.

Malpractice suits will help, perhaps.

I am just one person, but it is my belief that if we just increased their

required education to a reasonable level like 700 hours of actual class and

clinical training (this was the level that every other country besides the US

thought was right in Milan) for what the WHO calls, I think, clinical adjunctive

treatment (not including actual acupuncture diagnosis and treatment plans and

followups), that we will see only serious folks doing acupuncture and not

weekend wonders with 50 hours and 120 hours of video. Thisis the MINIMUM that

consumers deserve and would be a step in the right direction toward a unified

education in acupuncture by all professions.

The question is whether those who teach MD's DO's and DC's can let go of

their lucrative short programs and face the realityof what they are doing to

both

their students and the students patients with this truncated education.

On another point, we do need to look at these people doing " peer " reviews of

real professional acupuncturists. These (fill in your own expletive) see they

can't really practice acupuncture but have to get a return on their

educational expenses by doing the " peer " reviews with a focus on further reviews

instead

of on the welfare of the patient.

David Molony

 

In a message dated 10/1/07 2:09:18 PM, bhawes writes:

 

 

>

> Wow. The most honest assessment possible coming from a surgeon - I think

> this shows where the degree of opposition to AP from the surg. community

> arises from: professional doubt, jealousy and fear. If we can do better

> with our minimally invasive procedure requiring far less formal

> education for a lot less, there will be a lot of surgeons with too much

> time on their hands.

>

> This is bad, bad news for us because these surgeons will see our art as

> an easy money maker on the side if they are having trouble lining up

> surgical patients, and they will try to put us out of business with

> their own ignorant " sham " acupuncture. The big fish swallows the little

> fish.

> Unfortunately, if the AAAOM (or whatever they're called now) doesn't

> start getting laws on the books forbiding underqualified MD's from

> taking our patients in every state, everyone will lose.

>

> The same surgeons who won't even give me the time of day because they

> call me a quack will be laughing all the way to the bank.

>

> -Ben Hawes, L.Ac.

>

>

>

 

 

 

 

 

" If in a competitive society you are sincere and honest, in some

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

 

David Molony

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Catasauqua, PA 18032

Phone (610)264-2755

Fax (610) 264-7292

 

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