Your Shekels are always welcome here! I think you are right about word-of-mouth referrals being the primary way that patients find practitioners.
As for all those letters after our names... it gets confusing since we do not have a uniform designation here in the U.S. "LAc", for Licensed Acupuncturist, is the most common, but there is also CA, RA, DOM, OMD, and I am probably missing a few.
I had a patient (who I had been treating for years) ask me if "LAc" stood for "Lactation Specialist"! Thant made me laugh! Yep, I think we get more wrapped up in the letters than patients do!
Keep up the good work with http://www.ChineseMedicineNotes.com
Peace,
Lisa
Dec 04, 2008
Titles by: Yael Ernst
Hey,
I am in Israel, where we don't have license, we hardly have a diploma.
I am not sure that people who are not in Chinese Medicine are all that interested in checking out those letters after the name- Lic.Ac, O.M.D, Dipl.Ac and so one.
I think most people go to a certain practitioner based on word-to-mouth recommendation, you know, like "oh, this guy helped me with my knee", that sort of thing.
My 2 Israeli Shekels on the matter. :)
Thanks,
Yael Ernst
CMNotes: http://www.chinesemedicinenotes.com
