होम्योपैथी-नई सोच/नई दिशायें

आज अकस्मात    बाबलेक्र्जि के चिठ्ठे से गुजरने का मौका लगा । बाब एक  ऐलोपैथिक चिकित्सक की हैसियत से स्काट्लैंड मे 1982 से 1995 तक एक G.P. की तरह प्रैक्टिस करते रहे और बाद में जब एक ही तरह की प्रैकीटस के तरीकों से मन ऊबा तो 1983 में स्काट्लैंड के ग्लास्गो होम्योपैथिक अस्पताल ( Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital )  से होम्योपैथिक मे पी.जी. कोर्स किया और आजकल वह इसी अस्पताल से काफ़ी लम्बे समय से जुडॆ हुये हैं ।  अपने चिटठे मे ” Why homeopathy and what is it anyway? ” मे वह लिखते हैं :

   bobleckridge

I work at Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital. I’m a medical doctor, used to be a GP (Family Physician), but I became gradually disenchanted with prescribing only antis (anti-biotics, anti-depressants, anti-inflammatories, anti-histamines, anti-hypertensives……..you get the picture) and only having the time to focus on little bits of people instead of the people themselves (we call those little bits diseases by the way). I had perhaps strangely had a notion that being a doctor would be about being involved in healing (ever tried looking up “health” or “healing” in a medical textbook? Don’t bother. No such index items!) so just suppressing bits of people didn’t feel like what a proper doctor should be doing. On top of that there were situations every day where I just didn’t have anything good to offer (everything from infant colic, to night cramps, restless legs, sports injuries, PMT…….blah, blah, blah - believe me, there are LOTS of problems your doctor doesn’t have answers for!)

I happened upon a course in “Homeopathy” at Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital back in 1983 - didn’t know there was such a hospital and had no idea what “homeopathy” was anyway, but something about the ad caught my attention - wish I could remember what it was! - I think it was something that mentioned “healing”! Well, I signed up. I learned there about homeopathic medicines, how safe they were, and what their indications were and they gave us a wee box of 10 remedies to go and try out in our practices. Well, from the first try I was amazed at how good these treatments were. They could deliver improvements in conditions I hadn’t other answers for and that was VERY useful. Patients would stop me in the street and thank me for the prescription because it had helped so much - that NEVER happened when I prescribed an anti-something!

To cut a long story short, the patient demand for homeopathic treatment drove my learning and after I passed the Membership exam of the Faculty of Homeopathy I started working at the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital in the Outpatient Dept every wednesday. Well, my wednesdays soon got an awful lot more satisfying than the mondays, tuesdays, thursdays and fridays, so I had a crisis. All my life I’d wanted to be a doctor, no, not just a doctor, but a GP, and here I was thinking I don’t want to be a GP anymore. So I stopped being a GP and for a few months did a weekly radio show on ScotFM, wrote a textbook of homeopathy for GPs, and did my wednesday clinics. After a few months my friend and colleague, David Reilly at the Homeopathic Hospital suggested we make a bid for the creation of full-time position for me at the hospital. I started there full-time in 1995 and I’m still there. I love it! Every single day, every single clinic, every single patient. I look forward to every day of work. How many people can say that? ……….

……..बाकी आप इनके ब्लाग मे स्वंय देखॆ ।