This past week I reflected on what is the biggest challenge we, TCM practitioners, face in this current US healthcare system. There are...

…I started treating Veterans in the Fall of 2019. Due to a switch in Insurance carriers, I have only recently started to again treat the...

I have discussed insurance and insurance companies plenty in my past blogs. Here, in Florida, our state TCM organization, FSOMA,...

One of my favorite meridians to use as the main focus of the treatment is the Leg ShaoYang channel. This channel can be used to treat a...

In these crazy days, where there seems to be a daily crisis, many of my patients just want to soothe their emotions. The most common...

…If you ask any TCM practitioner what the first thing that comes to his mind regarding documentation, he would most likely answer that it...

Documentation is an essential requirement that all healthcare professionals must comply with. Actually, it maybe the most important way...

What are some ways that can make TCM more attractive to Insurance companies? I will discuss some of things members of national and state...

I practice my medicine in the state of Florida, around the city of Orlando to be exact. You may not know that the state of Florida has...

The landscape of the US healthcare system has changed radically in the past 25 years. I remember the days when I followed my father...

“Integrative Medicine” is a term used more frequently nowadays to describe the evolution of the US healthcare system. The exact meaning...

I have discussed the importance in the communication between the patient and the practitioner. I believe in order to render the most...

One of the aspects of TCM that I am still attracted to is the simplicity behind its philosophy in healing and treating a patient. As we...

The field of TCM is truly an Art as opposed to simply being a collection of scientific principles. What do I mean by this? I mentioned in...

The Leg ShaoYang meridian is one of my favorite channels to treat because of the diversity of physical and emotional diseases that it can...

…The best way for the reader to appreciate this sense of integration between the ailment and the whole body is to understand the intake...

In the past couple blogs, I have been discussing how a TCM practitioner does take into account subjective factors, like stress, when...

…For one, Western and TCM practitioners will both assess factors that are outside the scope of the presenting ailment. It is standard...

Pain cases are the easiest way to highlight how unquantifiable factors do indeed affect the degree to the ailment. The reader will...

…The “subjective” questions are distinctly separate from the objective questions in a TCM intake. Again, I must emphasize that I am...