Deepest Health Chinese Medicine Podcast 28 – Why should you care about acupuncture professional associations like the AAAOM?

Chinese Medicine Central Podcast 28 is chiefly taken up by my conversation spurred by this Acupuncture Today article concerning the disorganization and recent organizational dysfunction of the American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (AAAOM). In that section, I believe I make a fairly compelling case for why you SHOULD care about national professional organizations, why we should think of ourselves as a profession at all, and a couple of quick ways you can (and should) get involved on the state or national level. At some point in recording this, I realized that I probably made a fairly good case for my being the President of the AAAOM, which was not my intent. Keeping with the new flow of our now (and hopefully forever) weekly podcast, I included the following sections: Our community : Where I discuss the fine work of Golden Month Mother Care in San Francisco, CA. Reader and listener questions : Where I encourage you to submit some on our podcast feedback page – and make a passionate plea for you to give us five star ratings and reviews in the iTunes store! Herb of the week : Where I discuss the power and confusion of 人蔘 Renshen – Panax ginseng. The main event : The aforementioned discussion of acupuncture professional associations and my idea of the vital importance of a robust “professional ecology.” Finally, I discuss something interesting on Chinese Medicine Central – this recent article going over the various digital ...
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