Re:MD-bashing & the politics of integrating TCM in national health...

[Guest guest]

The red apple doesn;t fall far from the tree.

 

While we hear from the some that letting Chinese medicine just SEEP into

western culture is the best........we lose ground as a profession and those

untrained gain position. This is not turf war in the sense of two equals

arguing.

 

Not that we all of us care about insurance reimbursement for our

work.....but the status quo has just dropped in Florida.

 

Licensed Acupuncturists were always reimbursed for their work in Personal

Injury Protection (PIP) in automobile accidents.

 

NOW that has gone bye-bye.

 

Like the workers compensation, APs need a prescription from an MD, DO or a

DC.

 

The handwriting is on the wall and the field is continually being smothered

in the ether by those who propagandize a " do nothing " attitude.

 

Maybe we should take a hard look at the Communist Manifesto and make a

comparison?

 

Richard

 

 

In a message dated 10/12/2007 12:52:28 P.M. Central Standard Time,

bhawes writes:

 

 

 

 

I must respectfully disagree here. The comparison to accepted medical

procedures performed by non-specialists is not accurate, simply because

acupuncture is NOT an accepted procedure. If we allow it to be performed

in a way that ensures a lower chance of success (i.e. by amateurs), then

this will hurt acupuncture'this will hurt acupuncture'<WBR>s acceptance into

Perhaps once acupuncture has become accepted as actually efficacious for

all the conditions for which we employ it successfully in our own

clinics, THEN we can allow it to become more diffuse in the healthcare

world because people will not confuse incompetence with lack of efficacy

across the board for the procedure itself. But right now, we aren't even

close to being there.

-Ben Hawes, L.Ac.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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