Please give it a try

I just wanted to send out an appeal for help with my future career.  Please utilize your local complementary medical professional.  Many practitioners of complementary medicine are trained to work with western medical professionals but approach the body from a different angle than those trained in western medicine.  That is why it is called complementary medicine.  It works well together with traditional western medicine.

Check out this site for high quality practitioners in acupuncture and oriental medicine: 

National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine  

If you are a more research based person, here is a link to the government agency that explains, monitors and promotes research in complementary medicine:

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine  

The more the public demands complementary options as part of their health insurance plans and the more patients educate their western medical practitioners about other options they want to utilize in their own treatment, the more acceptable and mainstream these practices will become.  Many of them are more cost efficient, less invasive and equally helpful for so many illnesses when compared to western medicine.  The goal is NOT to turn our backs on western medicine but to enhance it.  The goal is for all practitioners to work together for the benefit of the patient.

So, again, I encourage you to utilize your local complementary medicine practitioners.  Use them yourself, use them for your children's illnesses, use them for your aging relatives and use them for your pets.  The success these practitioners have now will help to pave the way for my future career.  It is a perfectly selfish request!  But, I also strongly believe in alternative forms of medicine regardless of whether or not I plan on making that my career.

Thanks for trying and I hope we all reap the rewards of having choices in health care.