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Haley Parker

Haley Parker

Director of Clinical Operations and Professor at Virginia University of Integrative Medicine; licensed acupuncturist and herbalist specializing in integrative medicine and TCM education.

Jun 10, 2026

20:10
So I would love for you to take the floor on that.
20:13
I tell my students and other practitioners if I'm coaching them or teaching them as colleagues, that we really have to be translators.
20:21
Even originally, when we have this jargon in TCM, we understand the integrative aspect of the body, but to your point, other Western medical providers may or may not be able to connect those dots.
20:32
Certainly, patients don't have that same familiarity with human anatomy and physiology, so we really have to teach them what are these things meaning.
20:39
Now, we have to be very careful because we live in a very litigious society, and we are under certain restraints of being able to say and diagnose with Western medical terms when we're a TCM provider.
20:51
So we have to stay in our lanes, and that makes it another layer of difficulty for our students and our practitioners being able to describe what's going on.
21:00
However, we can talk in a way in which we're able to elaborate on, say, certain conditions or patterns and really getting the patient to participate in their health.

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35:48
Now, let's get back to today's episode.What else do you provide your student with knowledge of where else they can integrate their knowledge? I know we can integrate everywhere, but where do you place your students so they get a lot of different kind of perspective?

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