The other day Dr. Joe mentioned that the best thing we can do is to work silently with our own doctors (if we have one) and with patients to bridge the gap between the two. Same is true with the veterinary and dental practitioners. I am fortunate to have a great MD who is open minded and sees that it is working to create health in my life. I have been very successful at "educating" him and his nurses about homeopathy by putting things like my "treatment plan" from my homeopath in my medical records. You do those things when the opportunity arises because you may need it later. And a need it right now, so I ask the nurse to review it and to ask him to sign a paper that I need to resolve an issue (a big one!) with the management of the leasing office where I reside.
I KNOW what's in my medical file so that if I need to provide documentation for any reason about an allopathic treatment that did not work, I also ask the nurse to review and send me a digital copy of that information so I can use it for the purpose for which I need it. It involves active, hands-on and sometimes tedious reviews and e-mails between me and my homeopath, but because he too is extraordinarily helpful, we figure it out and I manage the situation.
For example, my MD is surprised at my weight loss each time I go in. I immediately say something about homeopathy and tell him about fermentation. I ask him just off the cuff, to get me into the Denver Health System and partner me with a nutritionist who is smart and understands functional medicine and maybe even a bit about homeopathy to teach fermentation so we can teach the moms and dads to make water kefir soda for their kids when they're young. I always tell him confidently that I can help change the SODA and sugar problem with kids and impact the obesity horrors of children. Then he says, "I'm not sure how to do that." I find out and get back to him. Slowly, slowly he is a believer... but I carefully and honestly talk to him or his primary clinic nurse and another doctor who I will see if he is not available.
We have to do that and we can teach patients to do it too. Who wins? The patient who is healing with homeopathy and periodically needs testing or information from the "system" to take back to the homeopath. I'm sure I'm his only patient who helps to manage his/her own healthcare, but I think he more or less likes it. Why? He sees me getting healthier instead of deteriorating at the ripe old age when decline takes over, and that's a fact. I have had a very rough time in the past year with my health, with stress management and money, but I won't give up because I know homeopathy will get me the results I want so I can keep smiling, walking, enjoying my life with my dogs and using what I learn from my own healing to help other humans and pets.
As homeopaths at varying degrees along the path, you can educate your patients to create harmony with the allopaths.
Yes, I do not like allopathy either, but not because I don't like the people who go to medical school with good intentions, but for the fact that it doesn't heal anything and it's exploiting the entire global population for PROFITS! I witnessed what happened to both of my parents went through as they aged and both developed Alzheimer's. I didn't know enough at the time to help them, but I know now: HOMEOPATHY WORKS!
Vicki