I must admit that lately, despite its proverbial roots deminonónicas, homeopathy is targeting the mainstream of modernity. So, not only are courses by telephone, as I described in the previous entry in this blog, but also diagnoses and remedies are issued by mail. Within homeopaths have nothing in the e-mail your instrument more accurate prescribing and flooded the network will see medical records, all with names and surnames.
Back to the correspondence. Strange as it may seem, was one of the founders of the current homeopathic called unicist who determined, not the adequacy of the system, but its adoption and practice. The Dr. James Tyler Kent established that the disease occurs as a result of the disharmony of the body's vital energy, and it involves both the local and the global symptoms. The patient should be examined in its entirety, physically and intellectually, and in all matters relating to their health and life in general, habits, customs, lifestyle, relationships, neighborhood, institutional, food habits, etc. The patient's general condition-acute, chronic, mild ... - determines the dosage of the drug, in this case only Simillimum , ie that which produces similar symptoms in a healthy person.
the things which Dr. Tyler goes and writes an article that:
"To achieve this desirable result each case must be individualized, each symptom from head to feet, must be indicated, each variation of health has to be known. Anything that is not as it should be is a symptom and must be targeted. The complete picture of the disease can not always be indicated in a written report, the physician must see the patient at least once. But like many patients want to be cured by correspondence In fact, in certain circumstances the same good result can be achieved by the patient's symptoms most outstanding writing, marked, peculiar characteristic of the disease. " [emphasis mine]
Dr. Tyler prepared for this Finally a questionnaire in which questions were set minimum to the patient in the comfort of his home, had to respond in writing to explain your condition and allow the doctor to give an accurate diagnosis.
This may seem a solemn nonsense, and indeed it is, because it is usually difficult for a layman to explain, let alone describe epistolary, some symptoms or specific conditions. Imagine a hemorrhoid affected by letter to the doctor explain your symptoms: size, color and smell of the pustules, the exact location of them, if you feel pain when pressure is applied in the area, and how big is that pressure if high or low or very little or a lot, if you sit normally prevents or not or which way the chair tilted to avoid discomfort, if you bleed a lot or almost nothing (how much is "much"?) ... In Finally, a multitude of symptoms, regardless of the disease in question, often many times more due to the subjectivity and feeling of the patient that effective and conclusive signs that you suffer from any disease.
But this, even though serious and paradoxical, is not whether we review the tenets and principles of homeopathy, and say forensic practice. Indeed, one of the most solid foundations are there in this pseudoscience, something even recognized as a virtue by most critics, is the direct contact with the patient, personal, emotional relationships, the transfer of roundtrip confidence and trust between homeopath and patient. This proximity not only gives the patient a feeling of empathy, and that no doubt contributes greatly to the further development and possible improvement of the disease, but is essential for the homeopath to develop all their wisdom interrogation and shamelessly practiced what is called "cold reading."
Indeed, in most interviews, at least those I have had access, is a homeopath who question before the patient explain their illnesses, or immediately after a brief and rapid enumeration of conditions. It is very easy this way influence the patient to recognize that it is a symptom that had been overlooked, or that this or that episode was actually more or less important than the one I gave at the time, or even give name a symptom that the patient has failed to explain precisely, and the homeopath only knows its true meaning. So anybody feels understood and satisfied. If you have "guessed" all of your symptoms and you have "targeted" toward healing, how rare would leave the office without the belief that homeopathy will cure you. This does work, unlike those of insurance quacks even look you in the face and you shipped in just two minutes ... "If even looked at me ..." goes a popular aphorism.
Well, that, that homeopaths birloque Birli again forget their doctrinal bases and do what they want, or what comes more comfortable. Item Moreover, homeopath attributed to be the most hardcore fans of the pure method of Hahnemann, contrary to other trends in homeopathy not so orthodox.
Too many patients, some with reason and others not, complain that the current health system precludes personal contact between doctor and patient, which strongly influences poor quality of public medicine. Can you imagine if suddenly say doctors favored the diagnosis and cure by mail?
[The questionnaire, rich descriptions, can available from here]
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