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An Interview with Lucjan Shila
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Bob Flaws interviews Lucjan Shila. Lucjan Shila is an Acupuncture Physician in Florida with more than 30 years of practice of Chinese medicine as well as a DO (candidate). In this interview, Lucjan talks about the necessity of constantly going over the basic theories of Chinese medicine as the key to constantly improving clinical practice. He also talks about the necessity of proper referring by acupuncturists to other health care professionals with different expertise and scopes of practice.
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An Interview with Bruce Robinson
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Bob Flaws interviews Bruce Robinson about Bruce’s new book on biomedicine for acupuncturists. Bob asks Bruce to explain how and why he created this book, who it’s for, and what it’s meant to do and, just as importantly not do. In particular, Bruce talks about the issue of red flags in clinical practice and also about how the clinical scenarios in the book are taken from his own real-life experience.
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An Interview with Bobbi Aqua, L.Ac.
Monday, October 22, 2007
IIn this interview, Honora Lee Wolfe discusses Bobbi Aqua's community clinics in Bali and Sumatra called Yayasaan Bumi Sehat. Starting from a single small birthing clinic in the mountains of Bali, this completely free facility now treats the full range of diseases and conditions, seeing over 200 patients per week. American practitioners can volunteer their time and take a tax-exempt vacation in Bali all in one shot. Honora asks Bobbi how she got started, how things have grown, and what the future looks like for this great humantarian undertaking.
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An Interview with Juliette Aiyana on Weight Loss & Chinese Medicine
Friday, October 19, 2007
Juliette Aiyana is an acupuncturist in New York City and author of Chinese Medicine & Healthy Weight Management. In this interview with Bob Flaws, Juliette discusses why she wrote this book, what's in it, why she included Western, evidenced-based medical principles from the NIH, and how acupuncture and Chinese herbs can be used to lose weight and keep it off. She also talks about reasonable and unreasonable expectations and providing a support system for patients with weight loss issues.
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An Interview with Diana Fried, Executive Director of Acupuncturists Without Borders
Thursday, October 04, 2007
In this interview, Bob talks with Diana about the creation of AWB and how it got started in response to Katrina in New Orleans. They then go on to talk AWB's mission, new projects (such as working with veterans of Iraq), and trainings as well as wants and needs. AWB is a a tax-deductible charitable organization which needs more help and participation from the acupuncture community. This is a great way to get involved and pay it forward.
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Michael Johnston on the Statements of Fact book
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Bob Flaws interviews Michael Johnston about what he learned while working on the book Statements of Fact in TCM. In particular, Michael talks about why the material in this book is so useful in clinical practice and how working on and learning this material has made him a better Chinese medical diagnostician.
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Fred Jennes on Herb Toxicities & Drug Interactions
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Bob Flaws interviews Fred Jennes about his book on Herb Toxicities & Drug Interactions. Bob questions Fred about why the book is designed the way it is and how practitioners can use this book in their practice. Fred also talks about why this information is important to clinicians and how to judge or weight the material in this book.
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Bob Damone on Andrology
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Bob Flaws interviews Bob Damone on Chinese medical andrology and more. In terms of andrology, Bob Damone discusses some of the interesting information he has come across on integrated Chinese-Western medicine in the Chinese language literature. However, Bob Damone also talks about some of the most common problems students and young practitioners have in attempting to practice Chinese medicine as well as remedies to these problems.
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Eric Brand on International English standards for Chinese medicine
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Bob Flaws interviews Eric Brand on the role of English language standards in the translation and propagation of Chinese medicine. In particular, Eric talks about the new WHO standard terminology, its method of creation, strengths, and weaknesses, and how it relates to Nigel Wiseman and Feng Ye’s Practical Dictionary of Chinese Medicine. With more and more standards being promulgated, this interview raises some interesting issues along with Eric’s opinions about how these standards will be used in the future.
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Ray Rubio on the Organization ABORM & Infertility
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Bob Flaws interviews Ray Rubio about the creation of the American Board of Oriental Reproductive Medicine (ABORM), of which Ray is the current President. In particular, Bob asks Ray who, how, and why ABORM was conceived and created and what its plans are for instituting testing and credentialing in this specialty area. Some people have criticized the founders of ABORM as acting unilaterally, and Ray addresses these criticisms in a straightforward and well informed way.
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Liver Depression-Spleen Vacuity & Metabonomics
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
A liver depression with concomitant spleen qi vacuity is one of the most commonly presenting patterns in adults in Chinese medicine. It is so commonly seen that it even has an abbreviation within the Chinese medical literature, a liver-spleen disharmony (gan pi bu he).
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Using Chinese Medical Pattern Discrimination for Prescribing Western Hypotensive Drugs
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
For a number of years, I have been suggesting that Chinese medical pattern discrimination could help Western doctors more accurately prescribe Western drugs. Till now, I have never read or heard anyone else make this suggestion. However, this may be one of the most important gifts of Chinese medicine to the history of world medicine.
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