Summer CPD

[Soroush Ebrahimi]

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Subject: Summer CPD

Date: 21 June 2014 08:48:27 BST

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Travelling Homoeopaths Collective Proudly presents:-

The 7th Homoeopathic Camp 10th - 13th July 2014
Oxfordshire / Wltshire Border

Sunday

The Controversy of Homoeopathy..
Lionel Milgrom
Come for the day/days or the whole camp!
- by imposing certain paradoxical re­strictions on experimental (as opposed to clinical) observation, that might bear more than a passing resemblance to those of….wait for it….quantum the­ory. Needles to say, this has met with gales of laughter and abuse from ho­meopathy’s detractors…..but then such is life….
Graduated from the London College of Homeopathy (LCH) in 1999 after 4 years professional training, then spent a year working with and treating the homeless in London.

Took Orion Advanced Course in 2000. Since then been practicing from home in North-West London, interspersed with several periods working at Nel­sons, Ainsworths, and recently in a dental practice in Harley St.

Among the exponents of a new wave of innovative research into under­standing how homeopathy works, and the therapeutic process in homeopathy and other CAM therapies.

Over 100 academic research papers, articles, conference proceedings and presentations.

These include many responses to the current band of so-called sceptics.

Also, I have been a research chemist for over 30 years, holding several sci­ence degrees, including a doctorate in chemistry. I am a Chartered Chemist, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

My research concentrated on under­standing and use of light and biologi­cally-targeted pigments as a novel treatment for cancer. In 2001, this cul­minated in the formation of a university spin-out company called PhotoBiotics Ltd, to propagate and commercialise this research. I was the company’s first CEO, so that qualifies me as an entre­preneur .

Have also been a science writer/ journalist for over 30 years, writing about chemistry and CAM for many leading newspapers, journals and magazines.

Married with three grown-up children and grandchildren, interest in home­opathy began on moving to London in the late 1970's, and first met my NHS GP, who was also a homeopath….and so my journey began…..
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Lionel Milgrom presents :-
Why do so many conventional doctors, scientists, media com­mentators, and even comedians ‘have it in’ for homeopathy? What is their ‘beef’…?
Part of the UK’s National Health Service since 1948, today some 400 fully quali­fied NHS doctors practice homeopathy. Yet its ‘detractors’ dismiss homeopathy as ‘quackery’, while the UK’s Chief Medical Officer unprofessionally brands its practitioners, purveyors of ‘snake oil’.

Even when presented with substantive evidence for homeopathy’s efficacy and effectiveness, why is it still impossible to convince its ‘detractors’ homeopathy really does have a role to play in treat­ing patients?

Via campaigning organisations, the me­dia, and the Internet, these ‘detractors’ militate against homeopathy to govern­ments and healthcare providers. What gives them the right to try to deny peo­ple in the UK the choice of homeopathy free on the NHS if they want it?

How should a non-scientist get to grips with and unravel the competing claims of homeopathy’s supporters and ‘detractors’? Come to think of it, just how good is the evidence for conven­tional medicine and how does it stack up against the evidence for homeopa­thy?

In this talk, I will tackle these questions, explore some of the controversial is­sues they generate – particularly for homeopathy’s ‘detractors’ – and pre­sents a compelling case why homeopa­thy should once more be recognised and accepted as a healing therapeutic modality in the developed world, just as it now is in India, Latin, and South Americas, and many developing world nations.

Then, within the context of one particu­lar trial, which claimed recently that ho­meopathy works but only because of the consultation, the randomised con­trolled trial (RCT) will be deconstructed as a ‘gold standard’ testing procedure.

This suggests a possible explanation of how the RCT might interfere with the very thing it is trying to investigate - the therapeutic process

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