Homeopathic intake questionarie

[Ellen Madono]

Dear Sanket,

I start differently every time. Standard routine type people start
with filling out forms. Anxious people get body work or they start
pouring out their story. As I said, the questionnaire is not a guide
for the interview. It is an effort to shorten the hemming and hawwing
over vaccinations, childhood diseases, and every little problem.

I like one approach where I tell them that I have a magic wand. I can
fix anything. I say ping and pretend I am hitting their head with the
wand. I ask them to list me everything that I could possibly fix. As
they list, sometimes I playfully say ping. I tell them that actually
I can't guarantee a fix, but its a game. If I have the list, I can
eyeball it and say, what about your knee? Playful people like the
game. A Kali probably would not invite such playfulness. After they
make the list, I eyeball it and tell them to tell me about the most
important things. Usually what they don't remember is not important.
The list helps to prevent getting lost on one problem.

I suppose for Sankaran's method, getting stuck on trivial problems is
not a problem. Often their chief complaint is not the center of the
case. If left on their own though, many patients would only discuss
what they had come to discuss. That is their chief complaint. How do
you get around that?

Anyway, by the next appointment, or when I give them their remedy they
are telling me new problems and symptoms. Until they have an
aggravation of a suppressed problem, they really don't usually
remember suppressions very well.

I am thinking that the Indian way of giving each patient only 15
minutes is maybe ok. At least for a few people in the West. It takes
time to get to know a person and to gain their trust. It would be
nice if we knew those people ahead of time and did not have to waste
so much time breaking the ice.

There are people who give only tissue salts or flower remedies in the
beginning. I wish I had more skill, but that makes sense for some of
these more closed people. What do you do for those types?

Another difficult concept is the importance of strange rare and
peculiar symptoms. Near the end I tell them about them. I wish I had
a better way of describing an SRP. But many cannot give me those
symptoms until they start experiencing a remedy. Then they begin to
get the hang of homeopathy.

Blessings,
Ellen

[Liz Brynin]

Sorry Kerry! Please excuse me.
You know, I was confused yesterday - computer glitched again - sent the same e-mail twice - after I had gone back and added more - it won't let me add anything to emails in the outbox without sending two copies - drives me mad. It also did the same with my email about the questionnaire!
Liz

[Kerry]

I have great sympathy with the computer problems Liz. I am just trying
to figure out how to save everything from this one to another hard disk,
so that I can do a complete operating system reinstall. It is one of
those times when I feel like going back to pen and paper!

Kerry

[sanket taldevkar]

hi ellen
i like ur approach, but in our India different homoeopath practices different method according to their understanding
generally i practice sankaran method and for this method its not only chief complaint is important but the other areas like dreams hobbies etc we search for the common sensation which is thee in each part of pt's life right from the chief complaint to other area imp it take more than 1 to 1.30 hr
well thanks for discussing ur way of interview with pt]
sanket

[Rochelle]

Dear Kerry,
Get yourself a 4 or 8Gb memory stick and copy onto that- I find that is the easiest way!!
Rochelle
Registered Homeopath
EFT(Advanced) Practitioner
www.southporthomeopathy.co.uk

[Liz Brynin]

I know what you mean! Does your server not have that option? My server has a remote hard drive, where I can back up all my files.
Liz

[Kerry]

Hi Rochelle

It isn’t so much the difficulty of copying it but the difficulty of
finding out where all the info is stored to copy it. At lot of the info
is not in obvious places such as the documents files. It is only
when you have problems that you realise how much you would lose should
you have a sudden crash.

Kerry

[Kerry]

No I don't get anything that posh with my server! I do have the spare
hard drive but have to figure where all the info is kept and sadly it
isn't all in the document section.

Kerry