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CONCLUSIONES:
Según el desarrollo expuesto precedentemente, se podría sintetizar casi totalmente la problemática en un solo término: ESTRÉS (sobrecarga, tensión), entendiéndose como tal a la “respuesta neuroendocrina tendiente a corregir los efectos nocivos de las noxas sobre la homeostasis”. Tal situación prolongada en el tiempo, lleva a cada organismo modificado (en mayor o menor medida) por el proceso de selección artificial, con sus pautas específicas de comportamiento (innato y aprendido) y portador de un psiquismo individual, a la adaptación (equilibrio) o a la no adaptación (desequilibrio). Si la interacción animal– ambiente llegare a ser negativa, produciéndose un desequilibrio energético, las posibilidades de que se produjesen a posteriori signos y síntomas indicadores de enfermedad serían altísimas, dependiendo la manifestación de los mismos de la susceptibilidad individual y de especie.
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IAVH President’s letter
Dear all,
Welcome to the New Year.
I hope you had a restful and enjoyable holiday with time to reflect on the past year and also look ahead to your dreams and goals for the New Year.
Homeopathy has always been patient-centered, with a strong focus upon the patient-physician interaction since the time of its founder, Samuel Hahnemann. Hahnemann taught his students to see patients as whole individuals, therefore in a (w)holistic manner, whereas the holistic viewpoint in conventional medicine is now regarded as almost a revolutionary new approach.
At the moment in the society in which we live there is a tendency to see things only in black and white. People can be categorically against vaccination, against homeopathy, against acupuncture or other alternative medicine methods, but at the same time they are willing to discuss other things they don’t understand like virus epidemics or gene therapy.
Also veterinarians are very often confronted with the guidelines, recommendations and challenges of doing the right thing for their patients and for their caretakers. Following only guidelines without seeing the patient and his disease as a total is difficult to cure him. Unfortunately also at vet schools veterinary students are mainly well taught to follow the treatment guidelines, but they aren’t taught to see the whole picture, not to even mention to poor communication skills with pet caretakers.
At the same time the holistic approach is becoming
more popular among animal keepers/caretakers, who desire not only highly professional care, but also a personal, empathetic approach for their pets. Inability to meet patients’ needs and their caretaker expect- ations often creates moral distress for many veterinarians.
Homeopathy is a symbol of the physician’s freedom to choose the remedies he considers necessary for the patient. The physician’s choice is driven by his education and experience. People often like to refer to the system – supervisory authorities, rules, but no system determines our choices and assumes no responsibility for them. The system creates opportunities and constrains but we are responsible for taking the right steps.
We are meant to thrive not only survive in our lives.
For me one of the ways how to experience joy in life is to bring more joy into my job. I’m delighted when I’m able to do a homeopathic consultation from my heart, even if sometimes it means to have the courage to speak against the general assumptions.
Remember Samuel Hahnemann’s aphorism “The physician’s high and only mission is to restore the sick to health, to cure, as it is termed.’
To fulfill this mission we have to assess the information, make conclusions and to take complete responsibility for our decisions.
I believe that the strong patient-physician relationship, the individual approach, and the results of homeopathic treatment continue to delight patients and homeopaths today, as much as it did in the previous two centuries.
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