COMMON GROUND
(Posted 2011-04-12 20:55:03 by ArchPaladin)

Lisa Rohleder is an acupuncturist in Oregon who was one of the people
primarily responsible for founding the community acupuncture movement.  For
the unaware reader, this is a movement where practitioners try to make a
living on high volume while charging low fees - they see many patients per
hour and treat in a large room, generally with recliners.

Lisa has a reputation (or at least I like to think she does) of being a
little in-your-face.  She has a few books and a blog which I feel come off
as reverse classist.  She grew up in a working class neighborhood and gets
inordinately offended at people who don't realize how they look down on
others (which I find ironic because she is often looking down on others in
accusation).  So as a whole I take the things she says very loosely because
a lot of it can be inflammatory.

Nevertheless, she delivered a keynote speech [
http://www.communityacupuncturenetwork.org/blog/conference-keynote-breaking-ceiling
] [communityacupuncturenetwork.org] for some conference I am unaware of
where she talks about her thought process behind different acupuncture
business models.  I have to say that I have finally found some common
ground with her, which I feel is long overdue.  It also answers a lot of
personal questions about the future of my own practice, throwing some of my
thought patterns into stark relief.  I won't be summarizing the speech
because there is a lot of profession-specific information in it (and it's
really long), but suffice to say I hope this is an opportunity to hear
something more worthwhile from the pioneers of this movement - something
that builds, rather than tears down.

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