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Stories in the mainstream press about sub-Saharan Africa tend to follow a pretty grim litany of poverty, corruption, violence and despair. (The photos are often even worse.) So I hereby submit for your perusal An African Miracle, which is a...

Apologies for the lack of posts in recent weeks. I'm just settling into India and will start posting from here more regularly. First, though, a couple of last things from Africa. If you haven't seen Christine's piece An African Miracle...

John Weeks' The Integrator Blog featured an interesting article on Working Class Acupuncture, a Portland, Oregon clinic built on the concept of making acupuncture more affordable.

As Lisa Rohleder, LAc, began trying to make sense of the business of professional acupuncture, she witnessed two distinct phenomena. First, she observed that a huge percentage of the working poor and even the middle class of people in the United States cannot afford to pay for acupuncture treatment when individual appointments cost $65-$200. Second, Rohleder observed that over 50% of graduates of acupuncture schools abandon practice without ever figuring out how to make a living at it.

What's wrong with these pictures? The price-point for an acupuncture treatment seemed to her to be related to both problems.

I highly recommend you read John's piece regardless of your modality. His interview with Lisa Rohleder is quite interesting, and also contains the basic financials for the business model she's using and actively promoting. The fact that it makes a great service more affordable and can help practitioners earn more at the same time makes it doubly compelling.

Related Links:

Integrator Blog Article
Working Class Acupuncture site

PS - You might also want to check out Rohleder's book The Remedy: Integrating Acupuncture into American Health Care, as well as her free ebook love your microbusiness: marketing for a community-based acupuncture practice a short, but very sweet manifesto on practice growth.

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