Question:

Jan, You inadvertantly made a truthful statement about my practice recently. Something terrible did indeed happen to my practice, something that I could have easily avoided if I had taken your advice as well as Kaalga’s. You see, I happened to like the NIH consensus statement on Acupuncture.  I like it so much, that I wrote the NIH and asked them to spend some of Jan & Kaalga’s tax-payments to print and send me two dozen of their printed consensus booklets.   I did this despite Kaalga’s informing me that the NIH statement was lukewarm at best and would not satisfy true skeptics.  I did this despite Jan’s warnings about "Organize Medicine" and how evil and dishonest that industry is.  Yes, despite the warnings of these two potential Nobel Laureats, I went ahead and did it…. What I did was mail these consensus statements, along with my CV and some other personal info, to local MD’s.   There response has been quite unexpected and caused me a great deal of hardship.  Without so much as a call of warning or a letter to my attorney, these "Medical Deities" bombarded me with a slew of referals.   As a direct result of their actions, I’m working more hours than I had ever intended when I started into this profession.  I don’t get to take the occasional afternoon off nor the blessed three day weekend.  Instead, I’m shut into my office with patients and their disharmonies.  I get calls from MD’s and patients asking "Do you treat such and such"?  "Can you see this patient today?" and "Will you send me some more of your business cards and those lovely brochures about Chinese medicine" Its a conspiracy, I tells ya!  These guys are trying to make me work THEIR hours and on THEIR patients.   It makes me so gosh-darned angry that I had to take today off to go golfing with 3 of them and give them a piece of my mind. The bloody nerve, I tell you!  Next thing you know, they’ll expect me to go fishing with them. Jan & Kaalga, if only I had listened to you….  I really didn’t have to make myself a victim and have only myself and the NIH to blame.  I mean, I don’t really like golf and now I’m being forced by the Conventional Establishment to conform.  Woe is me. For those not familiar with the NIH consensus statement, you may read it online at: http://odp.od.nih.gov/consensus/cons/107/107_statement.htm Or write them for copies, at the expense of Kaalga & Jan’s tax dollars. And for those too lazy to do either, here is the conclusion of the NIH report: Conclusions Acupuncture as a therapeutic intervention is widely practiced in the United States. There have been many studies of its potential usefulness. However, many of these studies provide equivocal results because of design, sample size, and other factors. The issue is further complicated by inherent difficulties in the use of appropriate controls, such as placebo and sham acupuncture groups. However, promising results have emerged, for example, efficacy of acupuncture in adult post-operative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting and in postoperative dental pain. There are other situations such as addiction, stroke rehabilitation, headache, menstrual cramps, tennis elbow, fibromyalgia, myofascial pain, osteoarthritis, low back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and asthma for which acupuncture may be useful as an adjunct treatment or an acceptable alternative or be included in a comprehensive management program. Further research is likely to uncover additional areas where acupuncture interventions will be useful. Findings from basic research have begun to elucidate the mechanisms of action of acupuncture, including the release of opioids and other peptides in the central nervous system and the periphery and changes in neuroendocrine function. Although much needs to be accomplished, the emergence of plausible mechanisms for the therapeutic effects of acupuncture is encouraging. The introduction of acupuncture into the choice of treatment modalities readily available to the public is in its early stages. Issues of training, licensure, and reimbursement remain to be clarified. There is sufficient evidence, however, of its potential value to conventional medicine to encourage further studies. There is sufficient evidence of acupuncture’s value to expand its use into conventional medicine and to encourage further studies of its physiology and clinical value.

Response:

Sure Andrew I believe you. You are very good at making up stories. Also with changing screen names which aol allows seven. Jan, You inadvertantly made a truthful statement about my practice recently.

And you are just now addressing it. Oh and fuuny how IIsa also lives very close to Wilmington NC. Sorry Andrew you have lied so many times, I can’t believe a word you say. Jan I understand that you think that I am a liar. I hope that you find ways to deal with and control the anger within you. It certainly is not healthy to have all that negativity. Good luck. Rich, the self referential king. (aloha Rich)

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