RE: introduction and thoughts

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Brian Beard wrote :

 

>>I've had the experience of

patients getting worse after a treatment when I certainly did not

intend that to happen. This actually happened to one patient who had

a skin rash that was related to sexual abuse from years earlier. I

attributed it to trying to do too powerful a treatment when the

patient wasn't ready for it, and perhaps I was trying to push the

patient into getting better more than they were willing to do. There

were no herbs involved. So this is somewhat different in that the

root treatment (from my perspective and choice of), or attempt at it

made the patient worse because they weren't ready to move, and a

symptom treatment might have been more appropriate.>>>>>

 

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Brian May thanks for sharing your experiences.

I have had many, many experiences like the one's you describe. In fact we

were encouraged at Acupuncture school that if any thing went 'wrong' it was

more likely to do with the patient than our lack of efective diagnosis. My

difficulty with such a view is that by putting the onus on the patient it

leaves very little room for us to be aware of and learn from our mistakes.

 

salvador

 

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salvador,

 

I appreciate your perspective. Up until now I didn't think I was

putting the onus on the patient but that despite how they responded

to what I did I just hadn't found the right treatment for this

person. But when I re-read what I have written it certainly sounds

like I was. In any case, I certainly agree that we should not use the

patient's response as an excuse not to think that our diagnosis or

treatment plan is not the cause, but try to find the missing piece

that was overlooked.

 

--brian

 

Chinese Medicine , " salvador march "

<salvador_march@h...> wrote:

>

> Brian Beard wrote :

>

> >>I've had the experience of

> patients getting worse after a treatment when I certainly did not

> intend that to happen. This actually happened to one patient who

had

> a skin rash that was related to sexual abuse from years earlier. I

> attributed it to trying to do too powerful a treatment when the

> patient wasn't ready for it, and perhaps I was trying to push the

> patient into getting better more than they were willing to do. There

> were no herbs involved. So this is somewhat different in that the

> root treatment (from my perspective and choice of), or attempt at it

> made the patient worse because they weren't ready to move, and a

> symptom treatment might have been more appropriate.>>>>>

>

> --

>

> Brian May thanks for sharing your experiences.

> I have had many, many experiences like the one's you describe. In

fact we

> were encouraged at Acupuncture school that if any thing

went 'wrong' it was

> more likely to do with the patient than our lack of efective

diagnosis. My

> difficulty with such a view is that by putting the onus on the

patient it

> leaves very little room for us to be aware of and learn from our

mistakes.

>

> salvador

>

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