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Integral Healing CirclesWatch a video of The Integral Healing Circle, How it Works
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"A Return to Healing" InterviewsInterviews and discussion with authors Len Saputo, MD, and Byron Belitsos
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Health Medicine is defined, its history reviewed, and its principles described. It has been brought into clinical practice at the Health Medicine Center.
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One of the founders and developers of Health Medicine shares the story of how the model came into existence. The economics involved with health medicine practice are a limiting factor. The nature and style of Healing Circles is reviewed. Two aspects of these circles were information exchange to connection of the entire group was most satisfying.
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Dr. Bristow is a former president of the national AMA and reviews the challenges he has faced in health care throughout his distinguished career. He also presents his ideas for solutions to what we're now facing in health care from the points of view of cost, availability of insurance, the epidemic of chronic diseases, and the safety of medications.
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We are losing personalized care with HMO medicine. The one size fits all approach, lack of personal continuity, and fragmented care is now what is offered. Medicine is becoming a job rather than a passion.
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Body, mind, emotion, and spirit are inseparable. They are one thing, not four. What you think regulates the biochemistry and physiology of the body. Imagery is the language of the mind and what we imagine is often a self-fulfilling prophecy. Physical disease is the somatic expession of psychospiritual dis-ease.
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Nutrition is important in itself, but it needs to be applied to the whole person to meet them where they are. There is a lot of conflict in the "right" diet. Starting with how people relate to food is often complicated but very necessary. Nutrition is about healing through food. Local, seasonal, organic food is important but who you eat with and how...
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Dealing with our toxic load is under-appreciated. Dr. Kneebone discusses his approaches from the perspective of homeopathic and other forms of detoxification. Homotoxicology is discussed. Lifestyle measures are discussed as the primary approach. There is an epidemic of toxicity, even in children that leads to compromised immunity. The Body Burden Study verifies...
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There has been a recent challenge in England about whether or not homeopathy was scientifically based and there is a movement to ban it from medical practice. It still remains a very popular treatment in England and many other places in the world. Whatever "science" does not understand it tends to throw out; this is not a scientific approach....
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Hospital food leaves much to be desired for people whose metabolic needs are dramatically increased. Nutritional medicine is seriously under appreciated.
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We all too often focus on how sick we are, but it also makes sense to focus on how healthy can we be. Lifestyle is the most powerful medicine. Orthomolecular medicine uses naturally occuring substances to support health and wellness and prevent disease. "Naturology" or natural medicine, or naturopathy puts nutrition first...that comes before drugs but...
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ObamaCare, or the Affordable Care Act, will bring 50 million new people into the Medicaid program, but who will pay for this and who will take care of them? Most MDs cannot afford to treat patients in Medicaid because reimbusement for services is far too low. The quality of care will drop and access to care will take time to take effect.
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submitted by: admin on 10/22/2018
There is a turf war between mainstream oncologists and CAM doctors that leads to an adversarial and competitive stance that is not in the patient's best interest. There is enough cancer around, but there aren't enough cures! Integrative oncology is sadly needed, but greed has gotten in the way of working together for the best interest of the patient....
submitted by: admin on 10/08/2013
Before going to medical school it is very important that students take a careful look at what being a physician means today. HMO medicine has changed the way medicine is practiced and health care has become a business first and service second. There are many health care disciplines are available and students should consider each of these disciplines...
submitted by: admin on 11/20/2013
A study published in the November issue of the British Medical Journal reported that ibuprofen and Tylenol had no beneficial effect on the symptoms of colds. In fact, they suspected that the illness was worsened by either drug. So, it neither reduced symptoms nor did anything to hurt the virus.
You have to wonder what took so long for an article...
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
Insurance companies depend on our being sick to make a profit. Physicians released the purse strings of medicine to the insurance industry. Now they control the practice of medicine. MDs need to take back this financial authority..
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Health care disparaties are common and as a society we are only as healthy as our weakest link. We also need to be in harmony with our environment, and many medical treatments pay no attention to this. Mayor Newsome has created a program called "Healthy San Francisco," that provides a beginning program of integrative health care for the indigent. Diet,...