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The members of the California Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine proudly maintain these principles of professional ethics:
  1. Always act in a manner that serves the best interest of the patient.
  2. Dedicate themselves to providing competent health care with compassion, respect for human dignity, and integrity.
  3. Continue to study, apply and advance clinical knowledge and research, in the maintenance of professional standards.
  4. Safeguard the patient's right to privacy by protecting information of a confidential nature. Patient confidence must be safeguarded within the constraints of fraud.
  5. Deal honestly with patients and colleagues, and to expose those Licensed Acupuncturists who jeopardize the patient safety or who engage in deception or fraud.
  6. Perform only those services necessary to preserve for the patient a maximum state of good health, and bill patients or other funding sources for those services actually performed.
  7. Optimize only those techniques in which the Licensed Acupuncturist is competent and is within scope of practice. The practitioner must not misrepresent credentials, training, experience, ability or results.
  8. Avoid discrimination in hiring, employee relations, patient selection and provision of services because of age, race, color, gender, ethnic origin, religion, or sexual preference.
  9. Support the ability of the client to have choice in treatment, and recommend referral of patients to other health care providers when appropriate.
  10. Abide by the Peer Review Process in the resolution of all disputes regarding patient complaints or questions of ethical and professional conduct.
  11. Request that all patients with complaints submit them in writing to the California Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
  12. Specifically release the Association, its peer review entities and all individuals participating in the peer review process, including witnesses, from any claims or liability provided they act in accordance with the Association's peer review process and have a reasonable factual basis for information provided or recommendations or actions taken.

THE CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF ACUPUNCTURE AND ORIENTAL MEDICINE CAAOM Letterhead
1231 State Street, Suite 208-A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
tel: (800) 477-4564
tel: (805) 957-4384
fax: (805) 957-4389

caaom@sb.net

The CAAOM Board of Directors


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