Power
As a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, you're going to find yourself at the heart of what's essentially a no-holds-barred saloon fight. There are going to be chairs cracked across people's backs, cowboys thrown through windows, and more than one bottle of perfectly good moonshine shattered behind the bar before the dust finally settles. Okay, so maybe it's not going to be that bad, but it is a heated debate that you will almost definitely cross paths with at some point in your career.
This gives you a position of power over two key areas.
The first is the debate itself. Team Western Medicine (or as many Western doctors call it, "medicine") is based on scientific peer-reviewed articles and case studies, while Team Alternative Medicine is usually argued through personal testimonials and long-held tradition. Which side will you champion as the debate rages on? Hopefully the latter if this is a career you actually want to practice.
The second area you'll have power in is your patients' health. As an acupuncturist, you believe that acupuncture, cupping, and many other alternative health practices have a decent shot at relieving pain and increasing general wellbeing. No one on either side of the debate, however, believes that a ruptured kidney can be safely removed and replaced with well-placed needles.
That's an extreme example, but deciding where the boundaries of your expertise lie is going to be crucial for making sure the people who trust you come out okay.