Years ago, my clinic employed 12 assistants. It was absolutely amazing. Regardless of how competent I may have been, sometimes people would not return because of the way they were treated by an assistant. It happens all the time, in every endeavor. The answer is easy.
Acupuncture delivers quick clinical results in a very short period of time.
Comparatively speaking, it is very inexpensive. I am convinced that striving for the quickest, most dramatic clinical response and releasing the patient to maintenance care as early as possible is one of the major keys to a high referral practice. Everyone has a dentist, for instance, but they only see their patients twice a year on average unless an emergency comes up. By seeing them twice a year routinely, people will see the same dentist for years and years. At these four times of the year, the universe is in an energy flux.