Interview Questions

1. Background/Past
a. How did you become a doctor?
b. How did you get to where you are now?
2. Ideology/Practice
a. What kind of medicine do you specialize in?
b. What illnesses/ailments do you treat?
c. What treatments do you use, and for what?
i. Acupuncture?
ii. Cupping?
iii. Drugs?
1. What is the purpose/ideology behind each?
3. Health/Diagnosis
a. How do you define health?
b. What are the first things you look or check for when diagnosing?
c. How do you perceive certain illnesses, injuries, etc.?
4. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Over Time
a. What is your opinion of traditional Chinese medicine?
i. How does it compare to modern Chinese medicine?
ii. How has it changed?
b. Do you incorporate traditional Chinese medicine into your practices?
5. Western Medicine
a. What is your opinion of Western medicine?
b. Do you incorporate Western medicine into your practice?
6. Definitions/Class Material
a. What is qi? The Five Phases? Yin and yang? Mo/mai?
i. Do you use any of these concepts in your practice?
b. What is your perspective of the Huang Di Nei Jing?
c. What is the underlying theory of musculature that TCM doctors rely on in the modern age?
What does it share with that of orthopedics?
7. Sports Medicine
a. How do you diagnose injuries?
b. What methods of treatment do you use?
i. For example, how would you treat a rolled ankle?
c. How do you approach injuries ideology-wise?
8. Yang Sheng
a. How does one yang sheng?
i. Is yang sheng different for athletes? For other demographics?
9. TCM in America
a. How does traditional Chinese medicine fit in modern American society?
i. Is TCM treated as primary and/or secondary care by your patients?
b. What do you think of American colleges that teach TCM?
10. Network
a. Do you communicate with other doctors?

i. Outside of your practice (e.g. Western doctors)?

b. Is there a network of traditional Chinese doctors in the US? In China?
11. Future of TCM
a. What do you think is the future of traditional Chinese medicine?
Research Questions
1. TCM in America
a. How does the National Institute of Health (NIH) define complementary alternative
medicine (CAM)?
i. Is TCM approved as a legitimate form of medicine in the U.S.?
ii. What is the role of TCM in modern society?
1. Is it used more as supplementary or primary medicine?
b. What are some TCM schools/colleges in the U.S.?