Posted on 02/01/2008 1:25:27 PM PST by ShadowDancer
Blind Acupuncturist Takes 2nd Stab At License
First Application Rejected Last Year Over Blindness
POSTED: 1:15 pm EST February 1, 2008
UPDATED: 2:02 pm EST February 1, 2008
AUSTIN, Texas -- A blind student of acupuncture is making a second request for a license to practice in Texas.
That's after Juliana Cumbo's first application was rejected last year because of her blindness.
The licensure committee of the Texas State Board of Acupuncture Examiners is set to rehear her request Friday.
If she's licensed, she would be the first blind person to be issued a state license.
The 31-year-old practices as a graduate intern in the student clinic of the Academy of Oriental Medicine at Austin.
She has earned a master's degree in acupuncture and Oriental medicine and passed the national board exams.
Meng-sheng Lin is the licensure committee chairwoman, and the Dallas acupuncturist said she's inclined to repeat her vote against Cumbo's application.
She said she's trying to fulfill her duty to protect the public.
Lin said acupuncture can lead to bleeding that if unnoticed could pose a contamination risk.
Cumbo's attorney, David Cohen of Austin, said denying Cumbo a license solely because of her blindness would violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.
That’s right up there with a blind lumberjack.
perhaps the most appropriate headline ever...lol
I can’t see the point to this.
Evidently, neither can he.
I’m wondering is she drives to work....
Probably be on pins and needles until a decision is made.
You guys.... you know it’s not nice to poke fun...
She should move over into Chiropractic. No needles, no bleeding...
Or a driver instructor...
It’s okay, her GPS is in braile.
I had a massage from a blind massage therapist. Couldn’t tell any difference.
It takes cutting a major artery to be able to hear bleeding. I used to be able to smell bleeding, but the ability has faded with time.
That lawyer needs to be beat for a week with a wiffle bat !
If she earned her degree and passed her board exams, I’m inclined to think she may be qualified. I imagine she can feel the correct spots with her hands, and nobody would be required to see her who didn’t choose to do so.
Blind people can do some amazing things, as they develop their other senses. I have a friend who’s blind. He frequently goes out for walks, never uses a cane, and has had no problems I know of. He once managed to ride a bicycle more than twenty miles around a loop of country roads. Not sure how, but he has excellent hearing, so he would hear cars coming. I think his wife went with him and helped direct him.
Why are they sticking it to this poor woman?
What are you, a beagle?
Meanwhile, I have near perfect vision and daily walk smack into something that has never moved in my house once in 12 years.
Normally a person doesn’t get a second chance, but this lady kept needling the board until they relented.
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