How good will I be?

First day at the clinic in the year of the Rabbit was an eye opener for me. We treated three very different patients for very different conditions. Each one made me think how I should handle the situation if the patient was at my future office. Because Chinese medicine can treat such a wide variety of conditions, there will be no shortage of interesting and complex cases. And since most patients see a Chinese medicine practitioner as a last resort because western medicine had failed to effectively help them, the pressure just becomes so much greater to know this medicine so well. It's simply amazing to watch our practitioners use pulse, tongue, and palpation to diagnosis diseases. Can you imagine watching your instructor in class palpate a fellow student's Large Intestine meridian on the WRIST and determined that she had thyroid issues and was right on about it? Sometimes I worry that I won't be that good. :P