Gaining recognition

Another epiphany - made while editing the foreword to a "standardized, modernized, systematized, internationalized" TCM book.

A significant portion of the TCM community in China is primarily interested in gaining recognition by the WM community, and is willing to go to great lengths to gain it.

This is a much different goal then most Western students of CM (including myself), which is to become a proficient doctor.

Different people that I meet are affected by this "...ization" attitude to different degrees. Some are completely consumed by it. Unfortunately they seem to be the ones who spend the most time writing...doctors tend not to have time, I suppose...