moriahc

I am so happy to have found this forum. I have been in this same dilemma for years. I have a degree in Biology and I love both western and eastern medicine, although I disagree with a lot of western med's treatment methods (ie. treating symptoms vs. the problem). Either way, I respect both styles of medicine! I would have launched full throttle into acupuncture school, but the debt and prospect of running my own business frightens me. I have been advised by multiple people to do nursing first (probably ADN), for all the obvious reasons already mentioned :) My biggest obstacle would be getting over all squeemishness though first! What I want to know though is how do you incorporate the two fields? The only plan I know of would be to work as a nurse full time for a year or two and then go PRN while attending acu school, maintaining both a nursing job and a fledgling acu practice. Are there better ways? I would love for this thread to be a formal group somewhere, so we can follow what each other is doing along the way...it can sometimes feel very isolating to be on the fringe of two medical worlds, especially one that is not fully accepted yet (it was just last weekend that my husband's brother, who is a doctor, warned me about the astragalus tincture i was taking :))