Thinking about Miriam Lee

From Avi Magidoff:

There is a tremendous advantage in treating people in open spaces and with other people. I have noticed this through teaching and conducting grand rounds. Although I use the same techniques in my private practice as I do when I teach, patients always seem to respond better and faster when I treat them [...]

The State of Acupuncture Laws in Michigan

As many of you now know, there will be a public hearing in Lansing on Monday about the proposed requirements for registering as an acupuncturist in Michigan. I’ve been encouraging people to send their input. Some folks have wanted more background information, so the following is what I understand to be true (please [...]

Acupuncture is like Noodles: The Theory

The foundational theory of Acupuncture is like Noodles rests on a strong class analysis of the U.S.. Specifically: In the U.S., one of the richest nations in the world, why are so many people doing without health care?

Although Rohleder centers her answer to this question around acupuncture, in all reality, her answer is one [...]

Miriam Lee Week at Detroit Community Acupuncture!

Miriam Lee Week
July 20 – 25th
2-for1 treatments
Detroit Community Acupuncture

“[Acupuncture] can be done for fame or for wealth…if the intention is wrong, if you are concentrating on earning money, treating fewer patients and charging higher fees…you may get some results from your treatments or you may not….If you intend to cure, you use
all your might to [...]

DCA at the AMC

Hey everyone! The bad news is that this weekend, the clinic hours will be a little shorter; we’ll be opening an hour later on Friday (3:00 instead of 2:00) and closing a little early on Saturday (11:30). The good news is that we’ll be doing lunch break treatments, on-site at the Allied Media [...]

Acupuncture is like Noodles #2

The first big question that must be answered before really digging into the theory that forms Acupuncture is like Noodles (AILN’s from now on), is “Why was this book written to begin with?”

If you’ve never been to an acupuncture clinic before (and most of us in the U.S. have not!), this question wouldn’t seem very [...]

An Introduction

Hello Detroit Community Acupuncture patients and readers!

My name is brownfemipower (BFP for short!), and Nora has invited me to write a bit for her blog!

A little about myself: I usually blog at Flip Flopping Joy. I have been blogging all over blog land for about three years now, and spend a lot of my [...]

Community Acupuncture sweeps the nation…

Well, it’s getting there, anyway – this movement is only about three years old, and the number of CA clinics grows every month! Check out this Google map of all of DCA’s brother/sister clinics – there may be one near someone you care about, who could use some affordable acupuncture (and no, I don’t [...]

Health, love, and community

I have a lot of thoughts about the relationships between these three things, but am (blessedly) too busy puncturing today to put them down in any coherent way. In the meantime, here’s an article that echoes some of them, for your reading pleasure.

It’s really written for an audience of acupuncturists, but has some interesting [...]