218 Uncertainty and Investing in Our Practice • William Green
Business & Practice Management It’s easy to have beliefs about people we don’t know. Especially if they tick the boxes of our biases, prejudice, ignorance and the opinions of our friends. When you think about successful stock market investors you’re probably not thinking about people with...
Qiological Audio Journal, Fall 2021 • QAJ002
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216 Perspectives From a Family Lineage • Dr. Shoubin Yu & Anthony DiSalvo
Methods Traditions tell a story. They hold and transmit insights into cultural, religious, and sometimes medical practices. They can give us a glimpse into how family lineages consider and refine aspects of medicine learned in the institutional settings. In this...
215 Inquisitiveness, Engagement and Vitality • Velia Wortman
Acupuncture As practitioners of Chinese Medicine, it’s our responsibility to address all aspects of our patient’s experience: mind, body, and spirit. This demands that we listen carefully to the various streams of information at our disposal—whether from our learned experience or...
214 Eastern and Western Philosophy & the Future of Chinese Medicine • Brenda Hood
Philosophy How we think influences what we do. The models and frameworks we use to understand not just our medicine, but the world itself, opens or limits the options we can offer our patients for treatment. While the Venn Diagrams of East Asian and Western medicine share some...
213 Boundaries, Filters, Language and Flow, The Terrain of Empathy • Diane Fabian Smith
Diagnosis I’m reminded of the stillness of cats. How they can sit both still and yet completely and serenely attentive. So too with resonance, there is the yin aspect of stillness with the yang expression of vibrating with the influence of the environment. And in the middle,...
212 Pulse, Presence and Process- Navigating the Flow • Ross Rosen
Diagnosis Pulse palpation…the telling touch in Chinese Medicine. It’s an integral aspect of East Asian that is simple in some ways, and deeply nuanced and complex in others. Feeling and interpreting a patient’s pulse is only one facet of clinical interaction. A practitioner has...
211 Chinese Medicine in South America • Rodrigo Aranda
Acupuncture Life has a way of nudging us in different directions. Some find inspiration in life-changing events; others in the smallest of things. But whichever path we take, we all have stories of how we got to do what we do. In this discussion with Rodrigo Aranda, we not only...
210 Sitting in the Fire- Ethics, Presence and Connection • Seanna Sifflet
Diagnosis How we are with ourselves affects how we are with patients. Our own difficulties in life can assist us in helping others, but it requires that we are able to come to a sense of neutrality with those traumas of the past. In this conversation with Seanna Sifflet we...
209 Autoimmune Disease Through the Lens of Chinese Medicine Physiology • Bryan McMahon
Autoimmune Successful treatment of autoimmune conditions depends on accurate assessment of the spectrum of excess and deficiency. When excess activity is at the fore, calm the wind and clear heat without damaging the vital; when deficiency is more pronounced, tonify the vital...
208 On Having a Successful, Resonant and Enjoyable Professional Life • Eric Grey
Business & Practice Management Community is something we often talk about, and yet it is not easily defined. Our practices include not just us and our business, but the ecosystems of commerce, profession, and location. In this conversation with Eric Grey with touch on how our profession is...
207 Developing Medicinal Intuition • Wendie Colter
Practitioner Cultivation & Development How often do you pay attention to your intuitive abilities in practice or in life? Intuition is more than a feeling. Medical intuition gives us the ability to make a diagnosis without physical examination, tests, or history. It’s when you tap into the patient’s energy...
206 Bian Que- Myth, Magic and Method • Shelley Ochs
The Classics Much of our medicine is shrouded in myth, and one of the obscure, but persistent figures is that of Bian Que, the bird-headed healer first associated with the use of stone needles. In this conversation with Shelley Ochs we discuss her Ph.D dissertation on this mythic...
Qiological Audio Journal, Summer 2021 • QAJ001
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204 Chinese Medicine Perspectives on Sleep • Damiana Corca
Conditions Slipping into sleep. It’s the simplest thing to do. Or the most difficult. The quietude of sleep is a reflection of the activity in our lives. And if that cycle wobbles with an imbalance, it can be difficult to correct. In this discussion with Damiana Corca we explore...
203 Getting Down to Business • Laura Christensen
Business & Practice Management Do you know the costs that go into creating the opportunity for a patient to lay on your table? Do you know how much you’re paying yourself? Have you built a profit into your business? We all know that word of mouth is the best form of marketing, but have you...
202 The Art of Negotiation— paradigm shift of interaction in the clinic • Margot Rossi & Nick Pole
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201 fMRI: The Patient-Acupuncturist Relationship • Vitaly Napadow
Methods Any seasoned practitioner leans on the patient practitioner relationship. There is something in the interaction that cannot be separated from the response they have to our treatment. In this conversation with Vitaly Napadow we discuss the Art of Medicine and how...