Is change always good?

An editorial I wrote was published in the August 2007 issue of Massage Magazine titled "Oh no, not another exam." I wrote it from a practitioner's perspective about the new examination from the Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards (FSMTB) about the possible negative impact of veteran massage therapists as new qualifications replace old ones.

I do want to say that I am not attached to the NCBTMB. Indeed it caused me many problems when it became widely accepted and changed the standard for the entry level practitioner. I do not pretend to be an expert on the subject and there may, indeed, be reasons to change the exam, but man, we were so close to having a universal exam. Why change it now?