How to find a good TCM doctor
Every one wants to find a good TCM doctor
to help them to solve their illness problem. It is never an easy
way.
It is difficult in old times, since it is
hard for people to know a doctor who is famous in a city or town
far away, for poor communication tools, such as news paper,
telephone, published media, etc.
It is also difficult now a days, for
reduced number of high quality TCM doctors in the world, mostly
due to the negative influence of the education system of the
conventional western medicine to the TCM education system. It
makes students in the TCM school feel confidence to practice
TCM, but lose confidence after graduate and work in clinic for
several years.
To learn the western medicine, hundreds of
students can gather in a single classroom to learn. They can
watch the same X-ray film at the same time and learn how to set
up a diagnosis. They can
read the same textbook to learn how to treat such a disease.
However, in TCM education, it is needed
that the student should follow the clinic expert closely and
monitor the change of a disease condition day by day. It needs
the hand-by-hand teaching from an experienced doctor.
For the same TCM book, a student or a TCM
doctor needs life long time to really understand its meaning and
be able to apply the knowledge to the clinic. The current TCM
medical system, even in China, does not favor such specific
need in the TCM education.
It can be said that the graduation of a
medical student in the western medicine is as the production of
an automatic assembly line: large quantity and the same quality.
While the production of a TCM student is as a hand-made art. It
needs special and close education and tutor for each student.
On the other side, a good candidate of a
TCM student need the student has overall summary and perception
mind. He or she should have ability to make conclusion from
scattered information, and has stronger prediction ability too.
He should have ready mind to evaluate the body mass and function
in a way that is different from the conventional medicine.
It sounds hard for you to find a good TCM
doctor? Don’t worry, here is some suggestion for you:
(1). If someone claims that they are TCM
doctor, they should be able to use the Traditional Chinese
herbal therapy.
(2). With their treatment, you do not need
to come to them for the same disease for a long time (for
instance one year, or two year), or again and again (every year
for same illness).
(3). They can explain the TCM meaning in a
easy understand way and not play too much medical terminology to
block your understanding. They should really link the changes in
your body condition to the nature. As it is said that, one of
the principle of the TCM is the unity of the body and the
nature. If they cannot explain your body condition as a spring,
summer, fall or winter in the nature, they may not be a good TCM
doctor.
(4). They look at your body structure and
function exactly in the Traditional Chinese Medicine point of
view, not mixed with the western medicine. It has been proven
true that the effort to combine the conventional medicine with
the TCM has failed. The western medicine and the TCM are
complete different medical systems. A TCM doctor should make a
full advantage of the TCM. In many aspects, a TCM doctor needs
life long time to practice and learn the TCM.
(5). They should be able to spend long time
in their clinic, rather than on some other business or
activities. We need a TCM doctor who is more experienced in
clinic, not just in talking. So, age is a mark for a good TCM
doctor, though it is not always true. A young TCM doctor might
also be very good, under the condition that he continues
learning. We can say that, for anyone, if he/she continues to
learn, what he does not know today, he might know it tomorrow.
I am not a good TCM doctor but I wish that
you can find a good one in your city or town for yourself.
Remember, if one TCM doctor cannot help you, never say that it
is the TCM therapy cannot help you. The clinic ability among the
TCM doctors is largely variable. It varies as the painting
skills among artists.
I will not go to a TCM doctor if they give
me treatment with both TCM therapies and western medical drugs
at the same time. The use of the drug will be a signal that they
are not good TCM doctor.
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