Infectious Childhood Disease Course

Ellen Madono · Post by **Ellen Madono** » Thu Apr 16, 2015 2:21 pm

Hi,
Please check out Will Taylor's course on Infectious Childhood Diseases. http://courses.homstudies.com
I am very pleased that I changed my mind and signed up for Will Taylor's course on infectious disease. Today was the first lecture and it was enlightening. Several years ago, I was first impressed by Will when I took his acute homeopathy course. In that course, he covered a number of infectious diseases, and in subsequent courses, he has also covered other childhood infectious diseases, also. So, I worried that this course would be a repeat of previous courses. (There are many students who have not taken those courses so I am sure he will repeat essential information.)
To the contrary, he is obviously wants us to understand the physiological and the historical background of the wide variety of childhood infectious diseases. The focus is much sharper this time. My understanding promises to go to a new level. At the same time, it is no joke that I continually have to build up from the position of a beginner in subjects like physiology. Originally, I thought, no one is banging at my door asking for my opinion on immunization, but now I can see that if I am better informed, the general issue with vaccination can become much clearer to me. Also, I will have a better understanding of Ardavan Shahrdar's work.
Honestly, I feel very uncomfortable when homeopathy becomes dogmatism. Hopefully, Sheri does the same with her course, so Will is not the only online source of knowledge. However, I am afraid I might have trouble reading through email and really digesting it. Using his own well developed techniques for presenting highly technical information in slides, Will's lectures expose me to complex information that I would have a lot of trouble beginning to read.
I am a visual learner and I am sociable. There are quizzes and a forum where Will is an active participant, so I get plenty of stimuli to push me to think more deeply. Typically, I listen to lectures many times. All of his lecture videos are online along with PDF files for downloading the lecture slides. Plus, there are always bonus references.
Years later, I may not be able to remember the exact detail, but I will remember the general concepts. I am the kind of person who needs to read paper books. Also, I need to be pulled up to a level of physiological understanding that is necessary for doing well informed homeopathy. In the generous Q&A sessions of the lecture, he combines Organon philosophy with physiology, pharmaceutical development history, politics and down to earth common sense. Instead of dogmatic answers, I am developing so that I am able to form my own opinions and even to do further research.
If anyone is interested in what I learned today or about Will's classes in general, let me know. I can summarize his thoughts on Bronchiolitis in RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) for you. We got into far spread subjects such as physiology, checking for meningitis symptoms in the office, treating the complications of sepsis, parental fear of fever, remedies, evaluating rubrics, repertorization techniques, Organon and questioning allopathic terminology such as "secondary disease." There are not many teachers who could spread their wings so widely, and bring us lay homeopathy students into such a cozy nest for online learning.
Students are at levels from beginner to experienced professionals. So, please don't eliminate yourself if you are a homeopathy beginner or a non-medical lay student. I started there. There are students in the class with a medical background, yet I feel privileged because I can study with them and still get my beginner's questions answered.
If you want to contact me privately go to the left hand column of my website. There is an email sender there. tokyohomeopathy.com
Best,

Ellen Madono

Shannon Nelson · Post by **Shannon Nelson** » Fri Apr 17, 2015 12:33 am

Ellen, thank you for that marvelous overview of the course! I so much wish I were able to take it now…
Personally, I will avidly read any further notes, summaries, reminiscences and etc., from it. I've taken courses with Will in the past, and they all have been wonderful. Good for you for going for it, and thanks for sharing!!

Shannon

Will Taylor · Post by **Will Taylor** » Fri Apr 17, 2015 1:24 am

Ellen, thanks for this lovely review! The course is a joy to prepare for and present, and the discussion is enriching for me as well. I’m hoping to lend a bit of sanity to the fear-mongering surrounding the “reappearance” of childhood contagious/epidemic disease, such as the recent North American 157-case/0 mortality measles “pandemic”.
Might I add, that asynchronous (self-paced) participation is available, as well as live participation in the webinar sessions. Streaming video of each live session (as with all my courses) is posted on the course support page within 72 hours of each live session (often sooner), along with handouts, self-assessment quiz, and the discussion forum, and all are available for 6 months from registration to all course registrants. It is also possible to join mid-stream and catch up with earlier sessions via the posted videos, while attending new sessions live.
Although my 6 year-old granddaughter’s response to my work being teaching from my computer in my basement office was “what a lame job!,” I love doing this and appreciate the support of the community in permitting me this wonderful livelihood.
will taylor

Roger B · Post by **Roger B** » Fri Apr 17, 2015 7:18 am

I think that one of the problems we face is that most of us, many of us, switched to homeopathy/alternative healing not out of observation and reason but out of horror, freaking out, and trusting complete strangers. We found that the mainstream way of doing things delivered tragedy, horror, sadness, and pain, so we jumped ship.

It is not like we switched from GM to Toyota: "So, why did you switch to Toyota?" "Well, I looked at Consumer's Reports and they said that Toyota cost-of-ownership was much less than any GM car." "That sounds reasonable."

It was more like: "You're going to die and there is absolutely nothing that we can do for you except load you up with pain killers." "But, doc, how about some of those alternative healing systems." "They are all useless and unscientific and snake oil. Pay your bill, go home and die. Have a nice day." And then you decide to jump ship, jump paradigm, jump personal relationships, jump family relationships.

Of course it doesn't help any that the MDs are bad-mouthing all of the competition.
Roger Bird
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To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
From: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 16:24:28 -0700
Subject: [Minutus] Re: Infectious Childhood Disease Course

Ellen, thanks for this lovely review! The course is a joy to prepare for and present, and the discussion is enriching for me as well. I’m hoping to lend a bit of sanity to the fear-mongering surrounding the “reappearance” of childhood contagious/epidemic disease, such as the recent North American 157-case/0 mortality measles “pandemic”.
Might I add, that asynchronous (self-paced) participation is available, as well as live participation in the webinar sessions. Streaming video of each live session (as with all my courses) is posted on the course support page within 72 hours of each live session (often sooner), along with handouts, self-assessment quiz, and the discussion forum, and all are available for 6 months from registration to all course registrants. It is also possible to join mid-stream and catch up with earlier sessions via the posted videos, while attending new sessions live.
Although my 6 year-old granddaughter’s response to my work being teaching from my computer in my basement office was “what a lame job!,” I love doing this and appreciate the support of the community in permitting me this wonderful livelihood.
will taylor

Ellen Madono · Post by **Ellen Madono** » Fri Apr 17, 2015 10:11 am

Hi Roger,
Will Taylor is an MD. So, MD is not a dirty word. Will has done a lot to make me more functional has a homeopath. All kinds of fear mongering on either side of a controversy is nothing but bad news for me personally.
Best,

Ellen
Ellen Madono
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Roger B · Post by **Roger B** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 12:40 pm

Ellen,

You do not need to defend yourself or medical doctors from me. I see any MD who has embraced alternative/homeopathic healing as a double hero and a doubly effective healer.

To get through medical school makes a person a hero. To climb out of the pit of medical propaganda makes one a hero.

To know both allopathy and working with the body are both very excellent abilities.

Roger Bird
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To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
From: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 17:11:45 +0900
Subject: Re: [Minutus] Re: Infectious Childhood Disease Course
Hi Roger,
Will Taylor is an MD. So, MD is not a dirty word. Will has done a lot to make me more functional has a homeopath. All kinds of fear mongering on either side of a controversy is nothing but bad news for me personally.
Best,

Ellen
Ellen Madono

Ellen Madono · Post by **Ellen Madono** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 7:14 am

Will Taylor said that he quit allopathy altogether when he started doing homeopath full-time. He was not dissing allopathic medicine. He just didn't want to do a half-assed job by fulfilling two roles at once. Keeping up with the pharmaceutical literature seems to be a bear of a task.

Ellen Madono
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Roger B · Post by **Roger B** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 10:00 am

Yeah, I got lost listening to that video of that lady kidney doc who is saying these bad things about vaccinations. It seems that so many doctors (her opponents) get lost in the details, and this makes it easy to rationalize opposing views away.

The big story here is not that vaccines are so bad (which they are) but that this community of very intelligent (and powerful) people (the medical community) can deliberately blind themselves so successfully and thoroughly. Intelligence doesn't seem to have any correlation to finding the truth.

Roger
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To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
From: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 14:14:17 +0900
Subject: Re: [Minutus] Re: Infectious Childhood Disease Course
Will Taylor said that he quit allopathy altogether when he started doing homeopath full-time. He was not dissing allopathic medicine. He just didn't want to do a half-assed job by fulfilling two roles at once. Keeping up with the pharmaceutical literature seems to be a bear of a task.

Ellen Madono