In a doctor's office, I expect to see a fairly comfortable waiting area, an attentive staff in scrubs, and a sterile-looking examination room with lots of white paint and bare metal. I expect there to be an ambient smell of antiseptic or other cleaning solution. If I see into the doctor's paperwork-office, I expect professional degrees on the walls and professional literature on the shelves.

I've never been to an acupuncturist's or other healer's, but I suspect things would be easiest for me if it resembled a doctor's in all of the above.