{"id":16030,"date":"2015-04-30T15:16:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T21:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miridiatech.com\/news\/?p=16030"},"modified":"2022-01-07T01:29:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T08:29:43","slug":"damn-i-didnt-need-an-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miridiatech.com\/news\/2015\/04\/damn-i-didnt-need-an-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn… I Didn’t Need an Education?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WhyHow would you respond to this statement I recently received from an acupuncturist on Facebook in response to a blog post I wrote about\u00a0AcuGraph? *Make sure you read the statement with sarcasm in your voice…<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“Wait a minute. …. I wasted thousands of dollars and years of my life to study TCM. I could have just paid a couple of thousand dollars on AcuGraph and had the same results instantly! Damn!”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Can you relate to this practitioner’s comment? I can totally relate. You’re probably wondering how I responded to this practitioner. I’ll tell you that in a minute. First, let me share a quick personal story.<\/p>\n

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Back when I was studying acupuncture at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in San Diego, I attended the famous Pacific Symposium each year.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0perused the vendors for four years\u00a0to\u00a0research products for the clinic I would open some day. One year, I was walking around with my friend and we stopped at the AcuGraph booth. Adrian Larsen was running the booth. (You know that guy, right?) I stopped. He graphed me and gave me his sales pitch. I asked a few questions and then my friend and I walked away and made the following statements: *Make sure you read the statements with sarcasm in your voice…<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“I’ve studied TCM for nearly four years and I’m about the take my exams. Why in the world would I need some machine to tell me how to treat? That machine is for practitioners who didn’t study at PCOM.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“He didn’t even look at my tongue or take my pulse. How can you make a diagnosis without tongue and pulse? I’ll bet he doesn’t sell many of those machines.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“Yeah, the machine doesn’t say anything about pattern diagnosis. I wonder why he is here trying to sell to TCM practitioners.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And off we went…<\/p>\n

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Now you can see how easy it is for me to relate to the question from the above practitioner. I thought AcuGraph was only for\u00a0practitioners who weren’t very smart.<\/p>\n

Can I admit out loud, right now, that I wasn’t very SMART?<\/p>\n

A lot of things have changed since that time for sure! I’ve got a lot of experience under my belt at this point.\u00a0Who knew, I’d be:<\/p>\n