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B.S. Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior
Masters of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Doctorate of Traditional Chinese Medicine
California Licensed Acupuncturist (LAc)
Dr. Eric Sun, L.Ac. DTCM
Dr. Eric Sun, L.Ac. DTCM
Eric has a love for healthcare and fills his practice with kindness, compassion and understanding. He strives to help his patients through their healthcare needs with holistic open-mindedness and empowerment of his patients in taking control of their own health.
Eric graduated from the University of California, Davis with a degree in Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior with a minor in Asian American Studies. It was during his time in undergrad that he learned the importance of cultural and socioeconomic context in the science and healthcare fields. While exploring ways to help people with a harmonious balance of both, he became enamored with modern Chinese medicine and thus launched his acupuncture career after graduating with a doctorate in traditional Chinese medicine.
The treatment style Eric practices heavily emphasizes a deeper understanding of wellness through a mind-body approach and seeks to balance both mental and physical aspects of his patients health.
Outside of his practice, Eric can be found watering his herb garden and enjoying a dark roasted oolong tea with pineapple cake. He enjoys activities that help hone his hand dexterity such as arts and crafts, cooking and video games. Ask him about Asian American history and how cultural influences affect his relationship with health!
Our Values
Our Values
Empower patients to feel in charge of their own health
Educate patients of how to take advantage of mind-body medicine
Encourage investment in personal health
Equity for all patients, because everyone deserve access to health
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Our Mission
Our Mission
Our mission at Sun Acupuncture Wellness Clinic is to educate, encourage and empower patients to take control of their health. Our practice will strive to deliver equitable treatment. We work to dispense hope and meaning to patient lives despite illnesses and injury so that they may feel the courage and confidence to have a high quality of life. A quote from Paul Kalanithi’s book When Breath Becomes Air:
“The physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence.”
It seems counterintuitive to say the physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, since it seems almost every health practitioner’s aim is to do exactly that. However, it is with immense humility that every health care provider understands that sometimes staving off death and returning patient health to what it once was may require nothing short of turning back time. Acupuncture and TCM clinics often find patients with chronic and stubborn pain and illnesses that conventional Western medicine, and the greater healthcare system, has failed to tactfully address. Despite this blunt reality, TCM excels at giving patients in these situations a sense of control and dignity. It can empower patients enough to make sense of their own existence despite their health condition. The prescription of lifestyle and dietary changes paired with facilitated hands-on care in mind-body medicine offers critical support services to those who live with chronic illnesses. In the spirit of this quote, our mission keeps in perspective the importance of mind-body medicine in that bodily illness and harm is and always will be intertwined with mental health. Healing is incomplete unless comprehensively satisfied by mind, body and spirit. The three “E”s (to educate, encourage and empower) that our practice values and vows to uphold is a progressive step-by-step process that guides treatment to end in not only physical healing but empowerment for the patient as well.
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