236 Understanding Western Medicine Through the Lens of Chinese Medicine • Dr Wen Hua-Bing
Diagnosis Dr. Wen received his medical degree from the prestigious Beijing University of Chinese Medicine (BUCM) in 1987 and graduated with highest honors. This earned him direct entry into the graduate program in Integrated Clinical Medicine where he was awarded “Best Thesis...
235 Reflections on Practice and Business • Cara Frank
Business & Practice Management Whether you’re a young or seasoned practitioner, opening your own Chinese medicine practice is an exciting , daunting and worthwhile challenge. There’s a lot that goes into being a practitioner—beyond the medicine part of it. You have to learn how to blend...
234 What It Means to Be a Chinese Medicine Doctor • Annie White
Practitioner Cultivation & Development Acupuncture is technique, a method, a way to send the body a message. But the message we send— that comes from the long tradition and practice of the medicine that originated in China. Do you consider yourself an acupuncturist, or a doctor of East Asian medicine? Do...
233 Teaching, Learning and the Music of Medicine • Etienne Simard
Acupuncture “The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harpof man’s body and reduce it to harmony.”― Francis Bacon Music and Medicine have a lot in common. In the deepest sense, medicine is a kind...