We learn and practice a holistic, integrated medicine.  Yet, when we try to learn how we should manage our Chinese medicine clinics, we find fragmented knowledge and rubrics that don’t really resonate.  It’s tough out there, and I find a lot of my colleagues end up overwhelmed, unhappy and uninspired. While there are other business [...]

I’m going to let you in on a little secret. I’m a huge dork.  I geek out about Chinese medicine – herbs in particular – yes.  But, maybe even more frequently – and certainly for a longer period of time – I’ve been geeking out about a field of interrelated skills and knowledge-bases that I [...]

As many of you know, I teach the business course at NCNM.  We just finished up with our first term together.  It was quite an experience.  We dug into our feelings about money, the global economic system, the realities of being in private practice and plenty more.  Next term, we’re getting a little more acquainted [...]

Whew – lots of things crop up when one is rebuilding a website from the ground up, as I did.  Just today, in fact, I lost ALL THE CONTENT FROM THE SITE temporarily.  Then the membership side of things fell apart.  Lots of stress, lots of walks and Qigong, lots of good ginger tea, more [...]

If you’re reading this site via RSS subscription, you may have received a tantalizing teaser about a Shennong course module.  If you would have moved to check out the post, you would have found your access blocked unless you are a Shennong member.  I’m sorry about that!   That little technological error was my fault [...]