Minutus

I have always done long distance case taking and always found it fascinating
that one doesn't get to 'be' with the client and I think I take compensating
measures in how I take and work the case and I also ask for photos and
encourage the person to phone me if they feel it is suitable or they need
to. I generally go with whatever the client wants and that way they feel
comfortable with it.

The success and failure rate is much the same as being with the client, i.e.
you can spends hours with someone and still not find the simillimum.

Best wishes, Joy

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on 27/8/04 2:28 am, Dr. J. Rozencwajg. MD. PhD. at jroz@ihug.co.nz wrote:

I would still be interested in comments on the starting point of that
"event"...... what do those of us who do distant homeopathy find useful or
missing, apart from the obious?

Did a phone conversation change anything in the case/prescription made on
the basis of a letter/email?

If you use regular mail, do you ask for a hand written letter and use
graphological information? has anybody found this type of analysis to be
useful or to correlate with remedy selection?

Would you ask a patient to send a tape or videotape from themselves giving
you the case or answering a series of questions you sent beforehand?

Dr. J. Rozencwajg, MD, PhD.
"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind""
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Hi Joy, list,

Some of my work is long-distance (after having met the px
initially), but in one case I have a reciprocal arrangement with a
colleague who has not seen me in well over 10 years. I treat him
and he treats me - and it works (otherwise obviously we would
not continue the arrangement). To add to what you say Joy, I
think we can all play to our strengths, and I find that I am slightly
better with my auditory sense than my visual - and sometimes
being with the patient and observing their body language can,
and does, interfere with 'hearing' everything they say, as people
behave differently when they are on the phone away from the
facade needed in vis-a-vis. A combination of visits and phone
calls is surely what we all do at times ? ( Especially 'phone
acutes, which often have to be solved by 'tapping in', as the
sensory data is missing.)

Your second paragraph reminds me of a case in point: a px
needing help with depression, grief, anxiety and low
self-esteem. Saw him regularly; he emailed; he phoned. Zero
(well, some rx did a little, but only palliated). Recently he was
about to give up and go see a therapist, when he sent me a copy
of his completed clinical BDI-II form for his doctor, and BINGO!
Under section 6 , he fills in "I feel I am being punished".
Suddenly it all fits. Chorea from fright, brain fag from grief and
anxiety, previously stammered ... Sometimes help comes in
unusual guises, and I'm happy to stay open to that.

Best wishes, Barbara
--- In minutus@yahoogroups.com, J Lucas wrote:
found it fascinating
compensating
photos and
they need
they feel
the client, i.e.
simillimum.