Natural medicine is the most kind to yourself approach, and you can actually have conversations with the practitioners, as well as being treated (Carole, 42yrs).
During formal interviews and informal conversations with TCM practitioners representing different specialties, the prevailing opinion was that needle acupuncture for infants and small children is considered painful, is inconvenient and is not indicated for routine clinical practice, except for certain neurological diseases.
Although this was discussed by the researchers amongst themselves, it did not surface in the conversations with the JJI practitioners.
Conversations with education policy practitioners in North Carolina reveal that ambitious principals in North Carolina aggressively search through transfer applicant lists to look for the most desirable candidates.
Systematic tracking of the fieldwork will be performed by a technical instructor, a monthly phone conversation with every practitioner, and collecting recruitment and DCF data.
A small pilot study determined that a brief questionnaire regarding the quality of the interaction captured the patient's experience better if they were allowed to rate the quality of the conversation with their practitioner.
[Fieldnote 1-1] In the observed exchange above, a document was specifically requested by the school staff, while a direct conversation with the practitioner was not even considered, even though the parent had indicated that reports were not commonly forthcoming in this situation.
Still, as conversations with a dozen leading practitioners of in vitro fertilization reveal, efforts to expand the technology and increase success rates continue.
The training course aims to prepare practitioners for constructive behaviour change conversations with patients and to provide practitioners with strategies and skills for encouraging behaviour change.
He is dismayed by the outcome of his education, which has been subsumed by the values of the marketplace, and the book begins with him creating art for art's sake – setting out, in conversations with artists, writers, performers and practitioners, to discover why doing something just because you want to do it is important.
