Lahey Clinic hired me to create a department and bring it up to economic viability. Aside from direct patient care, I do a lot of internal marketing. I make physicians and other healthcare staff aware that I'm here and what my specialty can do for their patients. Here at Lahey, I have patients from 3 to 91 years old. Oriental medicine is effective in treating a range of conditions, including chronic pain, gastrointestinal illnesses, cardiovascular diseases and cardiorespiratory diseases like asthma.
Acupuncture is one of the treatment modalities in a larger system of Oriental medicine.
Even though we're called acupuncturists, we employ a range of methods. Oriental herbal medicine is an important component, as well as manual therapies. And acupuncture is not just about poking people with needles. We use heat treatment techniques, massage therapy and so on. I like being able to help patients who have health conditions that might not be responding to conventional care.