So, are you on the 3 or 4 year track?? I get that question alot from first year students. I think its because they are trying to see if they are crazy for wanting to extend their program. I know that is why I asked that question when I first started. I always tell them "I'm a 3 year 2 semester person." It is the most comfortable pace for me. Chinese medicine is a bit like being on survivor. You are submersed in a culture, and huge history that is completely diffrent that what your are raised in, and you have to survive the grueling lectures and tests. The medicine is beautiful though, I think the last semester of the 2nd year is when things started to come together for me. I still cant tell you what Dan Shen is or where BL42 is. It just doesn't work for me that way. I know that being a healer is more than being able to shoot out info like a machine gun. Its being able to use your intuition, to analyze the persons symptoms which are almost always diffrent that what the book says.
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