JB wrote
<<What I cannot imagine is how to doctor as this comes about. Is the
demystification of medicine a significant part of the reason people are
turning to alternative practitioners? Am I alone in thinking that many
(but not all) of our patients need to be able to turn to someone who knows
what they do not know, perhaps even what they cannot imagine themselves
knowing?>>
I don't think so---the demystification bit I mean. I suspect that
patients don't care all that much about what healing system their
practitioner uses so long as they are treated with respect, given time and
courtesy, an explanation of how their symptoms/conditions/treatment fits
into the healing system that practitioner uses and (bottom of the list)
get some improvement from the consultation.
My one major criticism of alternative practitioners is that they use their
equivalent of medicine and/or drugs to treat----I dream of explaining to
patients about the wonders of their bodies and how well most things get
healed if they only give the bod half a chance.
Declan
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