Will to Get Well: The Deciding Factor for the Choice of Patient

Summary

Over the years I have realized that we have to accept and treat patients irrespective of caste, community, creed, nationality, religion, region, status, sex etc., in other words, without prejudice. But I have always asked myself: are we to accept and treat all patients who enter our clinics (if making a living is secondary)? Can we not select our patients? I realized we do have a right to choose a patient in very much the same measure as the patient has the right to choose her homoeopath! But having exercised this right we are duty bound to stay with the patient until she gets well or decides to leave us. If you also believe that: Disease has a purpose that needs to be enjoyed by the sick, and that: All restorations of health and all sickness that you are able to heal was only because the sick had a will to get well (and are not your intellectual exploits solely) than this article may appeal to you. All the beautiful cures in our consulting rooms are only possible because the patient had a strong will to get well.

Key words

Choice of patient - Footnotes 9 and 10 - Will to get well - Co-operation from patient - The ideal patient

References

• 1 Dudgeon R E. The Lesser Writings of Samuel Hahnemann. Reprint edition. New Delhi; B. Jain Publishers 2002
• 2 Hahnemann S. Organon of Medicine. 6th ed., translated by William Boericke (reprint edition). New Delhi; B. Jain Publishers 1997

1 In such cases (or for comatose patients or mental illnesses) if you become a part of the totality to treat the sick, then it is in perfect synchronicity with the universal flow of energy.

2 And after a while most of them do come back to you with that will to get well.

3 In this category fall some patients that get well on the same medicine in the same potency that was given by another homoeopath. I think two things could be at work here - one is the absence of the will to get well and the second is the fact that the previous homoeopath triggered certain conflicts in that patient.