ACU-053 How To Buy An Acupuncture Practice, with Megan Lindsey DACM
AcuSprout: Acupuncture Podcast
04/12/23
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can a new practitioner really purchase a busy clinic and succeed? Yes! And Megan is going to tell you how.
I LOVE when people want to contribute hard earned knowledge to the AcuSprout community! My guest today contacted me because she wanted to share her experience with YOU of purchasing a practice as a BRAND NEW ACUPUNCTURIST. Yes. She. Did.
today’s guest
MEGAN LINDSEY, DACM, OWNER OF SILVER SAGE ACUPUNCTUREMegan completed a bachelor’s degree in psychology from California State University Northridge before switching gears and coninueing her education at Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a Taoist school with a 38-generation lineage, located in Los Angeles, Ca. She is a Nationally Ceritfied Diploamate of Oriental Medicine and a California Board licensed acupuuncturist. After graduating in 2014 she struggleed with opening her own clinic and finding her way. After some stops and starts in 2017, she landed on purchasing an acupuncture clinic from a practitioner who was retiring, She has unique insight into the pros, cons and profitability of this route of practice. More recently, she graduated from Pacific College of Health and Science as a doctor of acupuncture and Chinese medicine (DACM).
Megan is a direct and open person who has a knack for creating soft nurturing, aesthetically soul comforting environments. Her space helps patients sink deeply into healing while feeling safe and supported. She advocates for her patients to empower themselves through education and lifestyle changes. Megan practices in a wholesome, raw, heart-centered way. She provides patients with the support and tools they need to gracefully pivot into and through, life’s challenges.
FIND HER HERE:Instagram: @silversageacupuncture
Website: Silver Sage Acupuncture
you’ll learn
- Why it’s so important to have a plan as a new practitioner but to keep your options and mind open.
- Many of us are hesitant to purchase a practice because we think the patients might leave. Guess what?! They don’t!
- Megan talks about making dream money her first year. A solo practitioner making over $200k a year? Yes.
- We talk about where the transition of ownership could have been handled differently.
- Megan makes suggestions for a smooth transition into practice.
- How she went from treating 0 patients to over 50 a week.
- We talk about what changes she has made over the years.
- We talk about how she has managed to escape the constant struggle of launching a new practice and how GOOD that feels.
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In this episode Anthony Von Der Muhll DAOM, who teaches Orthopedic Acupuncture and Sports Medicine at the Doctoral Program at the Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences (ACCHS) introduces us to CRPS. Listen in as he walks us through the case and becomes an integral piece of this patients pain management process.
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ACU-054 Welcome to this episode of the AcuSprout podcast where we explore case studies with expert acupuncturists to learn more about the application of acupuncture in clinical practice. In this episode, we have Toby Daly, a licensed acupuncturist and expert in Saam acupuncture, to discuss his approach to treating inflammatory bowel disease using this modality.
today’s guest
DR. TOBY DALY, PHD., LAC.Toby recieved his undergraduate degree in Food Science from the California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo. He began studying Chinese medicine in 1997 with Sunim Doam, a Korean monk trained in the Sa'am tradition. He earned his masters degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2002 upon completion of training at the American College of TraditionalChinese Medicine in San Francisco and Chengdu University in China.
During his four years of training in San Francisco, he interned with the prominent acupuncturist Dr. Angela Wu and learned to apply the lofty theories he was studying in school into the pragmatic setting of a busy clinic.
In 2013, he developed the Chinese Nutritional Strategies app to provide digital access to the wealth of Chinese dietary wisdom. In 2016, he completed a PhD in Classical Chinese Medicine under the guidance of 88th generation Daoist priest Jeffery Yuen. In 2021, he developed the Chinese Medical Characters app to enable direct access to foundational Chinese medical terms and concepts. In 2023 he published his first book, An Introduction to Chinese Medicine: A Patient’s Guide to Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, Nutrition & More.
He lectures internationally, sharing his 25 years of clinical experience with the Saam tradition.
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- Toby’s introduction to Sa’am while traveling in India and perchance meeting a Korean wandering monk beats any “entry to the medicine” story I have ever heard!
- We talk a bit about the wandering monks and what their lifestyle looks like.
- Toby presents an acupuncture case study where the patient has severe Irritable Bowel Disease that was unresponsive to western pharmaceutical medications.
- We journey thru this case thru the lens of Sa’am acupuncture which is based on yin/yang, five phases and six confirmations.
- Lastly, Toby discusses his 4 needle selections with a brief description of why he chose them.
- Then we follow up with how the treatment plan went and how his patient is doing now.
resources
- Toby’s new book, An Introduction to Chinese Medicine: A Patient’s Guide to Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, Nutrition & More
- Toby has a Chinese medical nutrition app that I used extensively when I was in school. His latest app is Chinese Medical Characters. Check them out here.
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