Deepest Health Classical Chinese Medicine Podcast 13 : Interview with Mark Silver concerning business in natural medicine
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Hello everyone,
I have big plans for the Deepest Health podcast. I really enjoyed doing my clinical updates, but they proved a little too time intensive for my current workload. In the future, I’ll be providing all kinds of information in audio format. Despite this planned diversification, let it be known that I enjoy doing interviews more than I enjoy doing any other kind of podcast. Perhaps it’s the nascent journalist within me?
When I contacted Mark Silver, founder of the Heart of Business and Portland local, I was hoping to entice him to come and speak to students at NCNM. I succeeded in that, with the additional bonus that he was kind enough to offer to do a podcast interview with me for Deepest Health! Score! After a few fits and starts, we managed to make our schedules line up nicely and we sat down for a chat on an early spring morning. I was amazed at the ease with which we spoke. I was excited by the important information he shared. I look forward to more collaboration with Mark in the future.
For now, I encourage you to listen to the podcast (below). If you like what you hear, head immediately over to his website, Heart of Business.com. He has a ton of free information available, as well as a weekly newsletter that is frequently insightful.
If you are in the Portland area, I encourage you to come to Mark’s talk at NCNM (click for a map to the location). It is free and open to the public. If you plan to come, do head over to his site to fill out this survey about what you would most like to have him speak about. I hope to share highlights from his talk after the weekend. You can click on the flyer below to enlarge it. Mark’s talk is part of the NCNM Student Government Association 2008-2009 Speaker Series, as I discussed in my prior post about Heiner Fruehauf’s talk. You can find a flyer for the full series on that post.
Thanks for listening!
Upcoming lectures for Chinese medicine students and practitioners in Portland
Some of you know that I am the student body President over at National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM). When I started my term, we created a survey to ask the students what they would most like us to do with our time and (their) money in the 2008-2009 school year. One of the top responses was, “Bring us speakers we care about!” We set about constructing a speaker series that began with Patch Adams (amazing, more on that another time) and will wrap up with Craig Mitchell in May.
Anyway, we have two lectures coming up pretty quickly. I’d like to talk briefly about both during the week. Today, I’d like to announce that Heiner Fruehauf, founding professor of the Classical Chinese Medicine program at NCNM, will be speaking this Thursday from 4-6pm on the NCNM campus in Room 322 (on the third floor). The lecture is open to the public and is titled, “News from the Classical Chinese Medicine scene in China.”
Those of you who want to know more about Heiner and his work can listen to my recent podcast interview series with him as well as many posts on Deepest Health that mention his influence on me as a student of the medicine. Yael over at Chinese Medicine notes also has a couple of posts, including a text interview.
Find two flyers below (click to enlarge) One shows the basic information for all of the upcoming events in the 2008-2009 SGA Speaker Series – please come and enjoy! The other flyer is specifically for Dr. Fruehauf’s talk.
Beginning tomorrow, I will be posting about the second talk in the series - with Mark Silver, founder of the Heart of Business. You’ll get a great taste of what Mark has to offer and I hope it will encourage local folks to come to the talk. Very timely stuff!
If you have any questions – please ask them in the comments so everyone can benefit.
Deepest Health Chinese Medicine Podcast Episode 12 : Interview with Dr. Arnaud Versluys LAc, PhD (Part 2 of 3)
I’m glad so many people enjoyed the first episode of this podcast interview with Dr. Arnaud Versluys LAc, PhD. The second part finds Dr. Versluys expanding on his definition of Classical Chinese medicine by discussing how one uses the Shang Han Lun in contemporary clinical practice, particularly concerning complex diseases typically seen in modern times. He also discusses the importance of specializing in a particular style of Chinese medicine and gives some advice to those of us seeking knowledge in this profession. I think you’ll really enjoy the information AND the audio quality – I think I finally got it right. :) Check it out at the bottom of this article!
If you missed the first part of the interview with Dr. Versluys you can find it here. For more background on the six conformations read the article linked here. I also encourage you to check out Dr. Versluys’ website, particularly the forums – a great place for discussing Canonical Chinese Medicine.
Dr. Versluys uses a few names that may be unfamiliar to listeners – I want to clarify these things for you. Li Dong Yuan is the author of The Treatise on the Spleen and Stomach (Pi Wei Lun)
and Jin Gui Yao Lue
I’ll release the final part of the interview early next week – it’s a short piece focusing specifically on the issue of herb substitution and the possibility of growing Chinese herbs in the United States. I hope you enjoy today’s podcast! As always, feel free to leave any comments – discussion is a great thing! :)
Eric
Deepest Health Chinese Medicine Podcast Episode 11 : Interview with Dr. Arnaud Versluys LAc, PhD (Part 1 of 3)
Happy Election day to all of my readers in the United States of America! I’ve cast my vote for Classical Chinese Medicine by publishing the first part of my podcast series with Dr. Arnaud Versluys. :D
This is a pretty brief piece where he answers the question, “What is Classical Chinese Medicine?” I think you’ll find some great information in there about the relationship of the Classical texts to the practice of medicine, the importance of careful study as well as some food for thought regarding the various schools of Chinese medicine. I’ll release the second part of the podcast before the end of the week and release the conclusion, a little vignette about herbal access and herb substitution next week.
Look also for my regular Saturday podcast this week – ok, so it hasn’t been very regular lately, but I hope we can get past that. ;) Enjoy the podcast!
Deepest Health Chinese Medicine Podcast : Episode 10 : End of term clinical reflections
Welcome to another Episode of the Deepest Health Podcast! In this episode, I discuss my reflections as I come to the end of my first term/quarter in clinic at NCNM. I reiterate the importance of memorization and excellent patient care, but then go in a philosophical direction on a couple of topics. First, I discuss my experience of being able to separate the disease from the person experiencing the disease. Second, I talk about the paradoxical reactions of some patients to treatment. I wrap up the podcast by a discussion of utilizing our many human gifts, referring often to the quintissential “Renaissance Man,” Leonardo da Vinci.
In the podcast, I reference a blog – but cannot remember the name of the blog, so cannot link to the post that inspired my da Vinci explorations. If you, for some strange reason, know what I’m talking about – let me know and I’ll link it. I also reference a book I’m currently reading about da Vinci and the practices one might take from his life. You can click on the link below to check it out.
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