Radar
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2002 2:35 am
I am using Radar, and I love it, but I feel strongly
that you need to become very familiar with using the
paper repertory before you should start using the
computer regularly. The biggest pitfall for me is that
it makes me lazy about understanding the patient - I
can just put in 30 rubrics and see what happens. It
doesn't help you to think, and in the early stages of
learning homoeopathy, the challenge is learning to
think like a good homoeopath. Once you have a busy
practise, the computer makes short work of what you
would otherwise do by hand.
That being said, there are many fabulous features of
the Radar that you can't get in any way from the book.
The most interesting for me is to be able to extract
all the symptoms of a particular remedy, so you can
see every rubric where that remedy is listed. It's a
great way of learning a remedy that you might not have
a lot of information about, or to get a quick picture
of the mentals, or generals.
I must put in another plug for Karen Allen's wonderful
Tutorial and Workbook for learning the repertory. If
you have to read every single page of the repertory
(which you do...), you might as well have fun doing
it, and her book is very entertaining.
Good luck,
Tracy
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that you need to become very familiar with using the
paper repertory before you should start using the
computer regularly. The biggest pitfall for me is that
it makes me lazy about understanding the patient - I
can just put in 30 rubrics and see what happens. It
doesn't help you to think, and in the early stages of
learning homoeopathy, the challenge is learning to
think like a good homoeopath. Once you have a busy
practise, the computer makes short work of what you
would otherwise do by hand.
That being said, there are many fabulous features of
the Radar that you can't get in any way from the book.
The most interesting for me is to be able to extract
all the symptoms of a particular remedy, so you can
see every rubric where that remedy is listed. It's a
great way of learning a remedy that you might not have
a lot of information about, or to get a quick picture
of the mentals, or generals.
I must put in another plug for Karen Allen's wonderful
Tutorial and Workbook for learning the repertory. If
you have to read every single page of the repertory
(which you do...), you might as well have fun doing
it, and her book is very entertaining.
Good luck,
Tracy
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