What failure teaches you...
Peter Berryman
MSc BMedSc PGDipHSc GradCertEd BSc ND AdvDipHom DipAstPsych GAICD Fellow ATMS
When your client responds fabulously to your first prescription, what do you learn? Nothing, other than that's how it should be! So when your first attempts to assist your next new client seem to fail, what do you do next? Try, try, try again? Well that cliché would be great if your client could afford to continue to pay your fee for your ongoing professional relationship, that is showing them no 'benefit'. Usually the client will give you one more try, and if nothing comes of that too, off they go elsewhere on their quest for a lasting cure. This is the hard reality of a professional's life in the private sector of health care. Even the Private Insurance partial rebates that the client may receive make little difference in financially competing in this uneven 'playing field' against Medicare in Australia. Lots of pro bono work doesn't pay the mortgage, so this financial pressure adds to the performance pressure we must work with. As a homeopath, at least I need to try and do two things correctly - select the best curative medicine; and select the optimum strength of that medicine. If I should make a mistake with either one, or both of these requirements, the consequences are likely to be a 'failure'. Neither my client nor I can afford to make very many of these mistakes, especially when there are over 3500 different medicines to choose from in the first place, and each medicine is available in a wide range of different strengths. We may not have the luxury of time either, to run these 'trials'. So what do you do next when the 'well indicated remedy fails?'
MSc BMedSc PGDipHSc GradCertEd BSc ND AdvDipHom DipAstPsych GAICD Fellow ATMS
10 年When NOTHING has happened after a first prescription, typically the remedy selection is thought to be 'wrong'. Yes, it could be, but you put in so much effort to find this remedy, given all the guidance available with the many navigational 'tools' that are available today to classical homeopaths, you would have expected a 'wrong' remedy to have at least been close to the 'right' remedy, and made some (even small) impact upon the patient, that would let you know that at least you were 'near the mark'. For example, I'd expect Pulsatilla to do something in a Silica patient; Ignatia to do something in a Natrum muriaticum patient. So when NOTHING happens, what's probably 'wrong' is the strength of the remedy:- the potency was not optimal for an effect in this time to be obvious, underwhelming your patient. So once again you check that the remedy that you first selected is still 'correct', and you move on to try a different strength, probably 'stronger'. Given that new patients typically only give practitioners two goes at getting their prescriptions correct, this is probably your last chance to get this 'right'. Talk about pressure to perform!