When I first considered becoming a Chinese medical physician, I had already been a licensed massage therapist for 32 years. I was, at this point quite good at helping people with the bodywork that I was doing, but I wanted to expand my skills and knowledge to be an even more effective healer.

I looked at chiropractic medicine, physical therapy, and Chinese medicine. I concluded that Chinese medicine, with its ancient and longstanding history of potent medicine along with its variety of modalities, was the most complete of the three and would provide me with the best medicine I could practice to help my patients.