Greetings!

 

 

Having read an article in the Star paper today on "Mindful Way to a Happy Self" it prompted me to share my personal and humble opinion with the group from my experience as a conventional medical practitioner for the past 15 years.

 

 

Albeit being a conventionally train medical practitioner with speciality qualifications as well...I have myself come to terms that treating a patient with a disease state does not only narrow down to treating that one part of the body system alone, but more so in treating the.. person's believe system  bearing down to the point of psychology and mindset, thus rendering treatment holistically in general.

 

 

I was once ask..Why can't I develop a clinic system where i don't need to be personally around to see my patients and yet it still runs with the same amount of patient volume?.I CAN'T, because i know i am not only treating my patients' disease but a big part of it is their psychology ie their believe system that  only i can resolve for them ( just by being the doctor who sees them) although my locum doctors will also be using the same medication following strictly ditto to my prescription.My patients chose to rather buy medicine over the counter, asking my nurse to follow the previous prescription by me and taking the risk of self dignosis. 

 

 

It is a true saying  that majority of patients whom we treat are already well by >50% at least from the very moment they built the confidence and the" believe" which is the "trust" in the doctor who is treating them, other than the basic fact that, they believe they are sick in the first place at a scale of 10, which in true fact maybe only 5 to start with, which the 5 was already taken care of psychologically through the "Believe".. So Andrew,...you are very right to share what you have read in the book by Jane Roberts "You Are What You Believe"...which i am testifying it is a fact as an active medical practioner who have seen thousands of "ill".people in my years of practise...and i do strongly support alternative healing, having explored it myself although we have to be weary of the many "quack" practitioners out there as well.

 

 

Regards

Dr. Wong Hsien Teik