From the Trenches

I have renamed my blog to what was always my dream title, and is also the fantasy post-graduate lecture series for other acupuncturists.  

From the trenches?  Is this a war, you may ask?  

Yes I think it is. 

A war of hearts and minds being wrested away from the dependency fostered by an unscrupulous and for-profit medical system. 

A war away from the misinformation generated by direct marketing to consumers from the drug industry, creating a generation of patients who think that everything can be cured instantly by one little pill without any effort on their part to change things.

 A war of beleaguered and often impoverished practitioners who dearly love their clients, but are drowning under the weight of oppressive student loans and the energetic demands of trying to support their clients while averaging $40 for an office visit.  

A war against for-profit acupuncture schools who think nothing of raising their tuition to the maximum allowed under federal law every time the federal government raises the lending limits available to students, but refuse to teach them how to successfully run their businesses.

A war against our own resistance to running professional practices including insurance and workers compensation because no one has stepped forward to show you how it can be done.

From The Trenches has been simmering on the back burner for years, and is nearly ready for being launched in a bigger way.  Stay tuned!