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Table of Contents July 2009

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Greetings AOM Members and Colleagues:

I include the Schopenhauer quote above to remind you that the truth of the AOM is similarly subject to the ever-changing nature of public perception. Acceptance of AOM is emerging - a fact influenced by your vital efforts to communicate with your Congressional representatives and to stress the importance of HR 646. Of course we still labor under the shadow of the much larger and shifting healthcare model; one which all too often excludes access to the practices you know work and put to use every day. Your patients seek your services because they work. Keep your heads up and remember that a mixture of urgency and persistence will serve to grow the field—one treatment at a time.

In this issue of the Qi-Unity Report, we offer you an assortment of articles that affect your life and work in the AOM field. The QUR interviews Mitch Stargrove, inventor of the IBIS database and OCOM professor. Mitch explains how the interactive database he designed originated, and how his open-ended model may allow practitioners the means to fine-tune various treatment options for any given patient - even as the database itself grows through practitioner observations. Laurel Axen Carroll discusses how Claudia Citkovitz and others reduce cesarean rates using AOM at Lutheran Hospital in New York City. Bryan Isacks discusses how to present AOM to allied health providers and examines the challenges and dynamics informing the frontiers of integrated medicine. Elisa Behnk reports on the increase in AAAOM-SO chapters and how two chapter schools have raised funds while simultaneously spreading AOM awareness. We also report on a new Minnesota law, effective August 1, which provides equal access to a licensed acupuncture practitioner for services covered under a regulated health plan. Lastly, for those of you that might have missed the President's Corner HR 646 90-Day Legislative Review Update Report, we have provided a copy under National AOM Issues. Our legislative activity has been intense, our achievements many, and our forward movement on our AOM in US Healthcare reform campaign self-evident.

Susan Johnson contributes a memorial reviewing the rare dedication of Miriam Lee’s life-work. Susan celebrates Miriam’s life and articulates her fundamental impact on AOM law in California and throughout the US.

On a personal note, I want to thank the AAAOM membership for the privilege of serving as program manager and managing editor of the Qi-Unity Report. It has been a pleasure to serve you, even as I now move on to other opportunities with alacrity. I place my AAAOM duties into the capable hands of Jolene Habeck and Lynn Eder. You may reach Lynn at leder@surewest.net and Jolene at jhabeck@aaaomonline.org.

The AAAOM is interested in your feedback. We invite you to use our General Feedback page to let us know your opinions and insights.

International News
Practice Management
Continuing Education and Events		 State Legislative Activities
AAAOM Activities
AAAOM Student Organization		 National AOM Issues
Links
Products, Services, and Member Savings

Table of Contents:

International News

  • July International Links


State Legislative Activities
  • Equal Access to Acupuncture Now Law in Minnesota


Sponsors of:

National AOM Issues

  • Courtney in The Wall Street Journal
  • Acupuncture for Labor & Delivery
  • The Qi-Unity Report Interviews Mitch Stargrove
  • In Memoriam - Dr. Miriam Lee
  • Trudy McAlister Fund Awards Scholarships
  • Integrator Blog News & Reports
  • AOM in US Healthcare Reform - 90-Day Review


Practice Management
  • On the Frontline of Integrative Healthcare: A Practitioner's Perspective on Merging East and West


Sponsors of:

AAAOM Activities

  • What’s an HSA and How Will It Affect My Practice?
  • Boston Globe Mentions AAAOM Efforts in Legislation That Could Expand Coverage for AOM Practitioners
  • Martha Lucas book release


Links
  • July's National Links


Sponsors of:

Continuing Education and Events

  • American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Launches New Website
  • Basic Bhupendra Acupuncture
  • Treatment of PTSD with Acupuncture
  • Pacific College Contributes to Annual Vietnam Stand-Down
  • Pacific College Welcomes Jeffrey Yuen & New Classical Chinese Medicine Program
  • An Invitation to the Historic Royal Heartland of London


AAAOM Student Organization
  • AAAOM-SOC Chapters Host Public Events


Products, Services, and Member Savings
  • Dear Prospective Advertiser:

International News

Links to International AOM Articles
Check out these links to recent international AOM articles.

http://www.aaaomonline.info/qiunity/09/07/1a.html

State Legislative Activities

Equal Access to Acupuncture Now Law in Minnesota
The Minnesota House of Representatives Public Information Services reports that treatment by licensed acupuncture practitioners will become more widely reimbursed by health care plans that already offer physician-supervised or provided coverage only.

http://www.aaaomonline.info/qiunity/09/07/2a.html


National AOM Issues

Courtney in The Wall Street Journal
Staff Editorial Coordinator Lynn Eder was scanning various AOM articles when she came upon this.

http://www.aaaomonline.info/qiunity/09/07/3a.html

Acupuncture for Labor & Delivery

http://www.aaaomonline.info/qiunity/09/07/3b.html

The Qi-Unity Report Interviews Mitch Stargrove

http://www.aaaomonline.info/qiunity/09/07/3c.html

In Memoriam - Dr. Miriam Lee

http://www.aaaomonline.info/qiunity/09/07/3d.html

Trudy McAlister Fund Awards Two Scholarships for 2009

http://www.aaaomonline.info/qiunity/09/07/3e.html

Integrator Blog News & Reports
As an on-going monthly feature, the Qi-Unity Report. continues to feature articles of interest from the Integrator, edited by John Weeks. The articles from July include: • Successful efforts by the Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium and US Senator Bernie Sanders to get inclusionary language on licensed CAM practitioners in a key health reform bill, • The advance of whole systems wellness thinking in the same US Senate reform package, • A review of the most significant research conference in integrative practice in 3 years, for which AAAOM and CCAOM were participating organizations, and • News from the Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Healthcare, an emerging consortium of 15 organizations with which CCAOM and NCCAOM are involved.

http://www.aaaomonline.info/qiunity/09/07/3f.html

AOM in US Healthcare Reform - 90-Day Review

http://www.aaaomonline.org/pressroom.asp?pagenumber=48292

Practice Management

On the Frontline of Integrative Healthcare: A Practitioner's Perspective on Merging East and West

http://www.aaaomonline.info/qiunity/09/07/4a.html


AAAOM Activities

What’s an HSA and How Will It Affect My Practice?

http://www.aaaomonline.info/qiunity/09/07/5a.html

Boston Globe Mentions AAAOM Efforts in Legislation That Could Expand Coverage for AOM Practitioners

www.boston.com

Martha Lucas book release
AAAOM Action Corps member, Martha Lucas, PhD, LAc, a Denver-based acupuncturist and practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), has authored Vanity Calamity: Your Guide to Cosmetic Acupuncture for Anti-aging. Dr. Lucas says "Vanity Calamity tells the history of vanity and what women have been willing to do to look younger or more beautiful. Now there’s a healthy, safe option - Cosmetic Acupuncture. My new book, now available for purchase at Amazon.com, shares how to look young naturally."

www.prleap.com

Links

July's Links
Here you will find a set of links to various AOM articles of note found on the web.

http://www.aaaomonline.info/qiunity/09/07/6a.html


Continuing Education and Events

American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Launches New Website http://www.aaaomonline.info/qiunity/09/07/7a.html

Basic Bhupendra Acupuncture

http://www.aaaomonline.info/qiunity/09/07/7b.html

Treatment of PTSD with Acupuncture

http://www.aaaomonline.info/qiunity/09/07/7c.html

Pacific College Contributes to Annual Vietnam Stand-Down

http://www.aaaomonline.info/qiunity/09/07/7d.html

Pacific College Welcomes Jeffrey Yuen & New Classical Chinese Medicine Program

http://www.aaaomonline.info/qiunity/09/07/7e.html

An Invitation to the Historic Royal Heartland of London

http://www.aaaomonline.info/qiunity/09/07/7f.html

AAAOM Student Organization

AAAOM-SOC Chapters Host Public Events
Students raise funds and boost awareness of acupuncture and Oriental medicine.

http://www.aaaomonline.info/qiunity/09/07/8a.html

Products, Services, and Member Savings

Dear Prospective Advertiser

http://www.aaaomonline.info/qiunity/09/07/9a.html

In closing,

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General Feedback

In Health,


Rebekah Christensen,
Executive Director
Douglas Newton,
Managing Editor

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