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Chinese Medicine practitioner
I have a question if anyone used a chinese medicine practitioner in a past or present and what was the outcome?
I don’t want to write too much.. but my experience was very disappointing.
His professional specification is a Registered Practitioner and Acupuncturist.
I was hoping to get some acupuncture on my mid back because of the tightness from working out.
Unfortunately, he said it’s not what he does. His massage table was tucked in a conner with boxes of papers and products, the whole office was very unprofessionally set up. It was actually a chinese herbal store and his office was in the back slightly partitioned by a shabby curtain. So he was running the store and patients at the same time. So, cant expect acupuncture done in this kind of setting.
Instead he set me at the table and by listening to my pulse was trying to give me diagnosis. 8 diagnosis were wrong. I recently had a full physical exam done by my MD. When I got tired of listening to his side of the story I told him that I don’t have any symptoms of what he is referring to, and recently been checked. Then he started to correct himself as if guessing and that made me very uncomfortable there. I told him that I came to see him for my back pain and was hoping to have an acupuncture procedure done. He said acupuncture is not going to help and I have to have ultrasound procedure done or injection of some sort which he wasn’t able to even specify, instead because my lateral muscle is “twisted”. I felt as if Im sitting in front of “witch doctor”. How I can even take his advice after all these mistakes. So, I asked him how much this all cost. He told me to pay $40 which he refused to take credit card for despite of running the business with cash register in the front. I had to go to the bank machine to bring the moneys to him.
Was very strange and scary experience for me. But the worse of it that I wasted my time driving outside the city, sitting in traffic, waiting for this appointment, hoping to get some medical help or advice instead was very unprofessional, unacceptable data of info to deal with, outside the normal scope of diagnostics. Practitioner failed to integrate western medicine with what he was practicing.
I felt as if I was visiting a fortune teller.
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