Thanks for the comment – I’m glad you found the blog, too.

I’m a free market kind of guy, so I support anyone – like your friends in Portland – finding their niche. There will always be a market in health care for people seeking different levels of service and privacy. Good for them for finding a sweet spot.

If Lisa’s numbers on the failure rate for acupuncture practices are correct, then you’ve got a profession that’s barely keeping it’s head above water. That’s really too bad. What I hope her approach does is enlarge the size of the “pie”, so that practitioners aren’t just dividing the same piece into smaller and smaller slices…

I’m not completely sold on Lisa’s idea. As an acupuncturist, I spend a full hour with each patient. I can’t expand the numbers by having more people in a room–it would only cause HIPPA violations. I think it’s a wonderful think outside the box strategy, but she is relying on quick diagnosis, which I am not comfortable with.

Having said that, I have friends starting out in the Portland area and I know they were worried about her prices–however we’ve worked on marketing their services for higher fees as being superior–such as the complete individual attention, private rooms etc.