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questionnaires- how do they make sense?
ABC is one good place for people to help others who are in trouble. It is also offering opportunity to prescribers to hone up their skills if they are serious. I note some things happening on ABC which make little sense to me. One is QUESTIONNAIRE. A mile long Q containing info perhaps even a computer cannot relate and make use of. Much of it not at all making sense. Some prescribers don’t even read the problem of the patient. Pat comes a questionnaire. There is a time for taking certain factors into account. I request such prescribers to pls make public a copy of their analysis which made use of all the info asked for. It will also be a lesson for new members to learn.radhey1504 on 2016-09-25
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
Hi radhey,
The forum is set up by the owner as a forum for discussion and not a clinic. He lets prescribing go on with the caveat "posts are not from medical professionals" which people never read.
People have asked the owner to have a standard questionnaire,and bc it is a Forum.. Not a clinic he will not do that.
Many prescribers in the past have tried to make others use their form or show how they got to their prescription, etc. No one is in charge here, or ever will be. Therefore , as a patient, if you read prescriber threads and ask for that person in your headline, you have a chance of getting good help. Otherwise you may get some 19 year old kid who was a patient two days ago and go down a bad road.
The forum is set up by the owner as a forum for discussion and not a clinic. He lets prescribing go on with the caveat "posts are not from medical professionals" which people never read.
People have asked the owner to have a standard questionnaire,and bc it is a Forum.. Not a clinic he will not do that.
Many prescribers in the past have tried to make others use their form or show how they got to their prescription, etc. No one is in charge here, or ever will be. Therefore , as a patient, if you read prescriber threads and ask for that person in your headline, you have a chance of getting good help. Otherwise you may get some 19 year old kid who was a patient two days ago and go down a bad road.
♡ simone717 7 years ago
Questionaires are certaily formats not cutomised documents for each patient. And no two doctors have similar questionaire. It is completely at the doctors' discretion to design it as per one's case taking method. Every information in questionaire may not be useful. When patient tells 10 things only one may be of any value. A prescriber should have this much of common sense.
Format of questionaire is not so important that it can be made a subject of contentions. Instead, one may concentrate on one's quality of prescriptions. This same person was breaking his head to convert 'pitta prakriti' into a rubric. He/she was worried about someone else's questionaire again.
I had answered his/her querry then and this person didn't have simple courtsy to acknowledge the help. (refer the image) A true professional can't be so narrow minded. This person appears to be venting his/her personal wrath on me for reason's best known to him/her which is silly. One might use one's talent and time for some fruitful and dreative work, instead.
Format of questionaire is not so important that it can be made a subject of contentions. Instead, one may concentrate on one's quality of prescriptions. This same person was breaking his head to convert 'pitta prakriti' into a rubric. He/she was worried about someone else's questionaire again.
I had answered his/her querry then and this person didn't have simple courtsy to acknowledge the help. (refer the image) A true professional can't be so narrow minded. This person appears to be venting his/her personal wrath on me for reason's best known to him/her which is silly. One might use one's talent and time for some fruitful and dreative work, instead.
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DrKulkarni 7 years ago
I see I have rocked the boat.
Some persons who claimed homeopathy as “my profession” etc on ABC are finding it difficult to react in a simple and rational manner. I have gone through thousands of posts and regrettably not one patient has stated” Thank you... I got cured”. Are people really so ungrateful?
Not a single thread has reached its culmination.
One good thing about ABC is that identity of both, prescriber and patient is hidden. “DrKulkarni” might as well actually be Hahnemann. I could be Aryabhatt. Therefore, DrKulkarni need not take it to heart.
Not one prescriber has ever asked “What happened to my patient?” And why did patient stop posting after 15-20 posts?
As to the long questionnaires I think some people are simply using them to show off their importance. There is first the thing called DIAGNOSING of ailment and then comes SELECTION of remedy.
If in case of, say, scanty menses the prescriber starts off by throwing a mile long Q wanting to know whether patient masturbates/color of eyes/ country/ gender…. What is the patient expected to do? Patient should leave in disgust.
It is far easier to ask a few relevant Qs to understand the patient’s problem rather than claiming that Prescriber will glean through heap of useless details later. That will connect you with patient.
One member stated that they were expecting moderator of ABC to devise a standard format. I cannot imagine a more unreasonable suggestion than this. Instead of asking me what/when/how etc they want me to fill up a proforma which even they did not make and will not understand.
One person has claimed I am after his blood. And that I am out to dislodge him from his throne. And we don’t even know who other is. He even claimed to be a better Allopath along with being a Homeo Doctor.
Many prescribers give impression that they are holding MM in one hand and other hand is always on keyboard lest they lose a potential patient. Some change 10 remedies in 10 days. Boericke must be turning in his grave.
One person claims that ABC is a forum for discussion. Good! Then why are all prescribing medicines at the drop of hat? All the more reason, that, those senior members start explaining logic behind their prescriptions and start sharing their analysis teaching how each information was made use of. I am not saying that then all patients shall be cured.
Ask patient questions relevant to his case in the first instance to make him feel you really want to understand how to help him. No one was ever cured with a single dose.
Do this and lead the way.
Some persons who claimed homeopathy as “my profession” etc on ABC are finding it difficult to react in a simple and rational manner. I have gone through thousands of posts and regrettably not one patient has stated” Thank you... I got cured”. Are people really so ungrateful?
Not a single thread has reached its culmination.
One good thing about ABC is that identity of both, prescriber and patient is hidden. “DrKulkarni” might as well actually be Hahnemann. I could be Aryabhatt. Therefore, DrKulkarni need not take it to heart.
Not one prescriber has ever asked “What happened to my patient?” And why did patient stop posting after 15-20 posts?
As to the long questionnaires I think some people are simply using them to show off their importance. There is first the thing called DIAGNOSING of ailment and then comes SELECTION of remedy.
If in case of, say, scanty menses the prescriber starts off by throwing a mile long Q wanting to know whether patient masturbates/color of eyes/ country/ gender…. What is the patient expected to do? Patient should leave in disgust.
It is far easier to ask a few relevant Qs to understand the patient’s problem rather than claiming that Prescriber will glean through heap of useless details later. That will connect you with patient.
One member stated that they were expecting moderator of ABC to devise a standard format. I cannot imagine a more unreasonable suggestion than this. Instead of asking me what/when/how etc they want me to fill up a proforma which even they did not make and will not understand.
One person has claimed I am after his blood. And that I am out to dislodge him from his throne. And we don’t even know who other is. He even claimed to be a better Allopath along with being a Homeo Doctor.
Many prescribers give impression that they are holding MM in one hand and other hand is always on keyboard lest they lose a potential patient. Some change 10 remedies in 10 days. Boericke must be turning in his grave.
One person claims that ABC is a forum for discussion. Good! Then why are all prescribing medicines at the drop of hat? All the more reason, that, those senior members start explaining logic behind their prescriptions and start sharing their analysis teaching how each information was made use of. I am not saying that then all patients shall be cured.
Ask patient questions relevant to his case in the first instance to make him feel you really want to understand how to help him. No one was ever cured with a single dose.
Do this and lead the way.
radhey1504 7 years ago
Regarding the aspect of expecting a thank you from the patients, there is an interesting anectode from the time of Hanemann, which is relevant , any time , past, present, and future.
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Case 85 - Sch
A washerwoman, somewhat above 40 years old, had been more than three weeks unable to pursue her avocations, when she consulted me on the 1st September, 1815.
On any movement, especially at every step, and worst on making a false step, she has a shoot (pain) in the scrobiculus cordis, that comes, as she avers, every time from the left side.
When she lies she feels quite well, then she has no pain anywhere, neither in the side nor in the scrobiculus.
She cannot sleep after three o'clock in the morning.
She relishes her food, but when she has eaten a little she feels sick.
Then the water collects in her mouth and runs out of it, like the water brash.
She has frequently empty eructations after every meal.
Her temper is passionate, disposed to anger.
Whenever the pain is severe she is covered with perspiration. The catamenia were quite regular, a fortnight since.
In other respects her health is good.
Now, as regards symptom 1
Belladonna, China, and Rhus toxicodendron cause shootings in the scrobiculus, but none of them only on motion, as is the case here. Pulsatilla (see Symp. 387) certainly causes shootings in the scrobiculus on making a false step, but only as a rare alternating action, and has neither the same digestive derangements as occur here at 4 compared with 5 and 6, nor the same state of the disposition.
Bryonia alone has among its chief alternating actions, as the whole list of its symptoms demonstrates, pains from movement, and especially shooting pains, as also stitches beneath the sternum (in the scrobiculus) on raising the arm, (448) and on making a false step it occasions shooting in other parts, (520, 574.)
The negative symptom 2
met with here answers especially to Bryonia, (638) few medicines (with the exception, perhaps, of Nux vomica and Rhus toxicodendron in their alternating action-neither of which, however, are suitable for the other symptoms) show a complete relief to pains during rest and when lying; Bryonia does, however, in an especial manner, (558 and many other Bryonia-symptoms.)
Symptom 3
is met with in several medicines, and also in Bryonia, (694.)
Symptom 4
is certainly, as far as regards "sickness after eating," met with in several other medicines, (Ignatia, Nux vomica, Mercurius, Ferrum, Belladonna, Pulsatilla, Cantharis) but neither so constantly and usually, nor with relish for food, as in Bryonia, (279.)
As regards symptom 5
several medicines certainly cause a flow of saliva like water-brash, just as well as Bryonia, (282) the others, however, do not produce the remaining symptoms in a very similar manner. Hence Bryonia is to be preferred to them in this point.
Symptom 6
Empty eructation (of wind only) after eating is found in few medicines, and in none so constantly, so usually, and to such a great degree, as in Bryonia, (255, 239.)
To 7.
One of the chief symptoms in diseases (see Organon of Medicine, 213) is the "state of the disposition," and as Bryonia (778) causes this symptom also in an exactly similar manner - Bryonia is for all these reasons to be preferred in this case to all other medicines as the Homeopathic remedy.
Now, as this woman was very robust, and the force of the disease must accordingly have been very considerable, to prevent her by its pain from doing any work, and as her vital forces, as has been observed, were not consensually affected, I gave her one of the strongest Homeopathic doses, a full drop of the pure juice of Bryonia root, * to be taken immediately, and bade her come to me again in forty-eight hours.
I told my friend E., who was present, that within that time the woman would be quite cured, but he, being but half a convert to Homeopathy, expressed his doubts about it. Two days afterwards he came again to ascertain the result, but the woman did not return then, and, in fact, never came back again.
I could only allay the impatience of my friend by telling him her name and that of the village where she lived, about three miles off, and advising him to seek her out and ascertain for himself how she was. This he did, and her answer was: "What was the use of my going back? The very next day, I was quite well, and could again commence my washing, and the following day I was as well as I am still. I am extremely obliged to the doctor, but the like of us have no time to leave off our work; and for three weeks previously my illness prevented me earning anything."
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So, it is not necessary that a patient should return and say thank you. The absence of such statements don't mean that the forum is useless.
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Case 85 - Sch
A washerwoman, somewhat above 40 years old, had been more than three weeks unable to pursue her avocations, when she consulted me on the 1st September, 1815.
On any movement, especially at every step, and worst on making a false step, she has a shoot (pain) in the scrobiculus cordis, that comes, as she avers, every time from the left side.
When she lies she feels quite well, then she has no pain anywhere, neither in the side nor in the scrobiculus.
She cannot sleep after three o'clock in the morning.
She relishes her food, but when she has eaten a little she feels sick.
Then the water collects in her mouth and runs out of it, like the water brash.
She has frequently empty eructations after every meal.
Her temper is passionate, disposed to anger.
Whenever the pain is severe she is covered with perspiration. The catamenia were quite regular, a fortnight since.
In other respects her health is good.
Now, as regards symptom 1
Belladonna, China, and Rhus toxicodendron cause shootings in the scrobiculus, but none of them only on motion, as is the case here. Pulsatilla (see Symp. 387) certainly causes shootings in the scrobiculus on making a false step, but only as a rare alternating action, and has neither the same digestive derangements as occur here at 4 compared with 5 and 6, nor the same state of the disposition.
Bryonia alone has among its chief alternating actions, as the whole list of its symptoms demonstrates, pains from movement, and especially shooting pains, as also stitches beneath the sternum (in the scrobiculus) on raising the arm, (448) and on making a false step it occasions shooting in other parts, (520, 574.)
The negative symptom 2
met with here answers especially to Bryonia, (638) few medicines (with the exception, perhaps, of Nux vomica and Rhus toxicodendron in their alternating action-neither of which, however, are suitable for the other symptoms) show a complete relief to pains during rest and when lying; Bryonia does, however, in an especial manner, (558 and many other Bryonia-symptoms.)
Symptom 3
is met with in several medicines, and also in Bryonia, (694.)
Symptom 4
is certainly, as far as regards "sickness after eating," met with in several other medicines, (Ignatia, Nux vomica, Mercurius, Ferrum, Belladonna, Pulsatilla, Cantharis) but neither so constantly and usually, nor with relish for food, as in Bryonia, (279.)
As regards symptom 5
several medicines certainly cause a flow of saliva like water-brash, just as well as Bryonia, (282) the others, however, do not produce the remaining symptoms in a very similar manner. Hence Bryonia is to be preferred to them in this point.
Symptom 6
Empty eructation (of wind only) after eating is found in few medicines, and in none so constantly, so usually, and to such a great degree, as in Bryonia, (255, 239.)
To 7.
One of the chief symptoms in diseases (see Organon of Medicine, 213) is the "state of the disposition," and as Bryonia (778) causes this symptom also in an exactly similar manner - Bryonia is for all these reasons to be preferred in this case to all other medicines as the Homeopathic remedy.
Now, as this woman was very robust, and the force of the disease must accordingly have been very considerable, to prevent her by its pain from doing any work, and as her vital forces, as has been observed, were not consensually affected, I gave her one of the strongest Homeopathic doses, a full drop of the pure juice of Bryonia root, * to be taken immediately, and bade her come to me again in forty-eight hours.
I told my friend E., who was present, that within that time the woman would be quite cured, but he, being but half a convert to Homeopathy, expressed his doubts about it. Two days afterwards he came again to ascertain the result, but the woman did not return then, and, in fact, never came back again.
I could only allay the impatience of my friend by telling him her name and that of the village where she lived, about three miles off, and advising him to seek her out and ascertain for himself how she was. This he did, and her answer was: "What was the use of my going back? The very next day, I was quite well, and could again commence my washing, and the following day I was as well as I am still. I am extremely obliged to the doctor, but the like of us have no time to leave off our work; and for three weeks previously my illness prevented me earning anything."
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So, it is not necessary that a patient should return and say thank you. The absence of such statements don't mean that the forum is useless.
♡ gavinimurthy 7 years ago
Dr. Kulkarni
No. They are not same. Nisha makes lot of mistakes, while writing sentences, and tries to be always very brief, because of that.
Radhey uses good English. A person who is good in English, can't make mistakes, even intentionally, while assuming another user name.
Don't get distracted by Radhey. Please continue the help you are giving. We are all grateful to you.
No. They are not same. Nisha makes lot of mistakes, while writing sentences, and tries to be always very brief, because of that.
Radhey uses good English. A person who is good in English, can't make mistakes, even intentionally, while assuming another user name.
Don't get distracted by Radhey. Please continue the help you are giving. We are all grateful to you.
♡ gavinimurthy 7 years ago
Dr k
You can always write the moderator simon at abchomeopathy dot com and ask him to check if you think someone has duplicate identity on here or more than one user name. It is against forum rules and the moderator can easily see if that is going on.
Radhey: this is a business set up by the forum owner to sell remedies and advertising.
what people do on here: prescribe, use forms or not, just chat, talk about
Other healing systems is all ok per the owner. The main rules are do not be rude, do not ask people to email you,and do not try to sell things.
Some people say who they are in real life, some do not. If you have issues write to the owner bc he designed this place.
You can always write the moderator simon at abchomeopathy dot com and ask him to check if you think someone has duplicate identity on here or more than one user name. It is against forum rules and the moderator can easily see if that is going on.
Radhey: this is a business set up by the forum owner to sell remedies and advertising.
what people do on here: prescribe, use forms or not, just chat, talk about
Other healing systems is all ok per the owner. The main rules are do not be rude, do not ask people to email you,and do not try to sell things.
Some people say who they are in real life, some do not. If you have issues write to the owner bc he designed this place.
♡ simone717 7 years ago
If not same they are, at least, closely related; may be spouse or friend.
However, I am least bothered about these undeserving people because I am convinced that it is out of personal vengiece rather than professional concern. I welcome healthy criticism and may reply critically too to such ones but not for such silly games.
However, I am least bothered about these undeserving people because I am convinced that it is out of personal vengiece rather than professional concern. I welcome healthy criticism and may reply critically too to such ones but not for such silly games.
DrKulkarni 7 years ago
I have stated elsewhere that I had a purpose.
I made no personal attacks. I only had commented on what someone had written in their post. Once you have posted something you should be prepared to take questions on that.
Why is DrKulkarni breathing fire against me? I do not know his true ID.
He and others could close the matter and earn respect of everyone by simply telling the ignorants like me what he did with such information in one case.
I have no desire to carry it further.
I made no personal attacks. I only had commented on what someone had written in their post. Once you have posted something you should be prepared to take questions on that.
Why is DrKulkarni breathing fire against me? I do not know his true ID.
He and others could close the matter and earn respect of everyone by simply telling the ignorants like me what he did with such information in one case.
I have no desire to carry it further.
radhey1504 7 years ago
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