Well, if we apply a tool to cure the unhealthy...What makes us any different than any other doctor?  Do we promote cure?  Isn't it really the patients own body that does the work?  Do we attempt to remove the obstacles and watch the vis in action? 

 

No, I don't personally believe that we are learning the Vis.  I think that we attempt to understand that amazing force called the Vis...but, it seems like saying that we are learning God/Goddess/Whatever higher power that you believe in.  Do you learn God?   It is my thought that we are learning the aspects of health, variations from health, and nature that are tangible to us...I emphasize tangible.  What do we do?....Attempt to clean up the waste, promote normal blood and lymph, and increase vitality (isn't that tweaking around on the physical level and hoping that the vital force can properly channel that amazing vis?).

 

Are these just semantics?  Or, are they fundamental philosophical concepts that we should be questioning and seeking answers for?

 

I'll end with a statement that may cause some discomfort...Do I run a battery of tests, treat lab values as the end all be all, throw a bunch of supplements at a patient, and cause cure? Is that really any different that the allopathic model?  Also, something I observed alot in private practices, but not actually on site while in school...when was the last time you asked a patient on your initial intake, "do you have a spiritual connection?, what is is?, how do you feel about this?" 

 

I respect and honor your words...and thank you for being the only one to join the discussion thus far.

Peace and Light~MaryK

 

 

 

On 6/13/07, moehabbahoo <moehabbahoo@...> wrote:

Hello,

I thought that we were supposed to use the tools available to us to
promote cure and health in our patients. So we use these tools
(homeopathy, manipulation, nutrition, hydrotherapy, mind body
medicine, etc)to accomplish our mission to cure the unhealthy.

As far as the phrase "learning the vis", in my inexperienced
experience, I have not heard people using that phrase. As doctors in
training are we not trying to learn the vis anyway? I don't find this
controversial at all, it is what we are doing.

tom