To tell or not to tell

[Dale Moss]

Annette,
You can pretty much tell from the remedy needed whether this is going to be an issue or not. I have many patients who never ask what I'm giving them, though I will usually tell them if I think knowledge of the remedy's name is not likely to prejudice their case. If a patient wants to know the name, I'll tell -- but add that I'll discuss why I prescribed it at our follow-up. Every so often you get a patient who can't wait to look it up and argue over whether or not the remedy really "fits" them. So I'll warn those I think likely to go this route that the snippets of information presented in books and on the Internet are only fragments of the picture, not the whole.
Peace,
Dale

[Shannon Nelson]

I also, when it seems appropriate, emphasize that the information they'll find online and in whatever books they are likely to have, will be only *part* of the prescribing picture, so they should not be alarmed to find that it "doesn't seem like [them] at all"! So very apt to be true with either a polychrest or a "small" or "new" remedy!

[John Harvey]

Hmm. That would seem to be emphasising something that is true in the strictest sense but unlikely to be at all relevant, as any information patients can't find on line pertaining to the provings of a polychrest is unlikely to have featured significantly, if at all, in its homoeopathic prescription!

Or are you referring to a medicine prescribed on some other basis than the symptoms it causes?

Cheers --

John

[Shannon Nelson]

Ummmmmmmmmmm, John, do you note that I said, "when appropriate"?
No further comment about it from me!

[John Harvey]

Uh-huh...