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| Lisa Lin, founder of TCTCM |
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By applying to the Texas College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, you are setting your feet on the path to a career as a valuable member of the American health care profession while also participating in the growth and development of humanity's oldest continuously practiced system of health and healing.As a long-time practitioner of the healing arts, I am deeply aware of the awesome responsibility and trust invested in any practitioner by his or her patients, and I am also aware of the many obstacles confronting not only patients, but also physicians, within the conventional, Western medical system.
In the practice of acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine, however, these limitations are reduced, and, in many cases, eliminated altogether.To earn an M.D. and to establish a small practice, one could expect that the total outlay would run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars for education alone, with twelve or more years devoted to study prior to practice. This is a great obstacle to the increase in the number of physicians, and helps to explain the growing problem of a shrinking base of physicians. Simply put, it is too expensive for most people to consider as a profession.Consider the practice of acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Qualified students can usually complete our College's program of study and earn their degrees in a little over three years, and at a fraction of the cost of earning an M.D., and yet, within their specialty, they are every bit as effective as an M.D. within his or her field of specialization. But more importantly, a practitioner of acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine has lower overhead than an M.D.; treatments are more affordable, meaning that more people can be helped without the practitioner losing money.
Indeed, a successful acupuncturist does well by doing good; that is, the more people he or she can help with affordable treatments, the greater his or her income, and this because of lower overhead and operating expenses.
The desire to help patients and to share China¡¦s unique medical heritage with the West, have been the driving force behind this College and the secrets of our success. Rather than establishing yet another acupuncture school, we decided to instead create a complete and perfect translation of the Traditional Chinese Medicine education available to students in China. In this sense, then, our peers are not here in the States, but rather in China and elsewhere throughout Asia.
I hope that you will give serious consideration to the Texas College of Traditional Chinese Medicine; since our first day, as the first school of our kind in the State, we have been training qualified practitioners of acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine, and have seen many of our graduates succeed beyond even their own wildest dreams and hopes.
Lisa P.H. Lin, Lic.Ac., EMBA
Founder and President, Texas College of Traditional Chinese Medicine
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