How does the training and practice of Chinese medicine change depending on one’s location? What is the difference in patient expectations, scopes of practice, and lineage versus institutional training and licensing? And what is really behind this supposed contrast between biomedicine, perceived as instantly effective and ideal for emergencies and serious conditions, versus Chinese medicine, supposedly being slow medicine, for chronic conditions, and too often seen as a benign complementary treatment?

In today’s episode of A Pebble in the Cosmic Pond, titled “Compassionate Practice, from Seattle to Taiwan to Nepal,” my collaborator Leo Lok and I are talking to Daniel Altschuler. Having lived and studied Chinese medicine for many years in Taiwan, he has been practicing and teaching in Seattle for the past 18 years, and also travels to Nepal each year to treat patients there through his nonprofit. So he is the perfect person to give us some new perspectives.

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Additional Information

• Open Hands Medicine - Daniel Altschuler's Non-Profit in Nepal
• Daniel Altschuler's clinic website - Home - Acupuncture Seattle - Traditional Chinese MedicineAcupuncture Seattle – Traditional Chinese Medicine | Looking for Acupuncture in Seattle? Chinese Medicine, Cancer Acupuncture Specialist, Dr. Daniel Altschuler can help you.
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