Ενοποιημένη Ιατρική An integrative approach to treating patients

Patients, parents and staff said alternative therapies have helped reduce pain by up to 54 percent, nausea caused by chemotherapy by 64 percent and stress by 37 percent. Examples of successful treatments include a session of foot reflexology that alleviated leg pain for a patient following injections, and a parent's stress level seemed to be temporarily reduced after receiving a therapeutic shoulder massage.

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Doctor on the alternative route to mental health.

As the research chair of the Canadian Institute of Natural and Integrative Medicine and the associate clinical professor of medicine at the University of Calgary, Rickhi says if mental illnesses continue to be ignored, this could result in serious social and economic costs.

Between 1987 and 1993, while working as the deputy director of the psychiatry department at the Calgary General Hospital, Rickhi was recognised by the World Heath Organisation (WHO) for excellence in epidemiology, forensic and mood disorders. This afforded him the opportunity to work with the WHO on research projects on mental health medicine, particularly in developing countries.

“At that time,” he said, “Dr Julio Arboleda Florez, a very forward WHO thinker, asked my opinion about where I thought medicine was going to be heading in the future. I felt it was in the area of complementary medicine and he and other members of WHO encouraged me to explore these areas further.”

He later began studies in traditional Chinese, Ayurvedic and Tibetan medicine as well as electronic homeopathy. In 2004 and 2005, as a member of the Bravewell Fellowship Advisory Committee, Rickhi worked on the development of a blueprint for the implementation of integrative health care clinics in conventional medical settings.

Asked to explain integrative health care, Rickhi described it as “the union of different paradigms of conventional and other medical therapies.”

He said non-conventional therapy looked at physical and spiritual aspects of a person as a well as mind function. It also deals with the concept that the body has the potential to heal itself if it is given the opportunity to do so.

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Από την ιστοσελίδα της ιατρικής σχολής του πανεπιστημίου Yale

Το συγκεκριμένο άρθρο καταγράφει πολλά σημαντικά και εντυπωσιακά επιτέυγματα της Ιατρικής. Δύο που έχουν ενδιαφέρον είναι:
1ον - ότι πάλι οι αρχαίοι έλληνες (αναγνωρίζει ο ιατρός του Γειλ) κάτι ήξεραν....
2ον - ότι οι δότες οργάνων στο συγκεκριμένο πρόγραμμα δέχονται και Ρεφλεξολογία κατά την ανάρωση τους και μάλιστα μελετάται η ποιότητα ζωής τους σε σχέση με τις συγκεκριμένες παρεμβάσεις ΣΕΘ.

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Transplant innovations give more patients second chances

Since Emre’s arrival, Yale has addressed the national shortage of donated organs with live-donor liver transplants. The ancient Greeks were on to something with the myth of Prometheus, sentenced to have his liver eaten by an eagle for giving human beings the secret of fire. Each day the organ grew back so that the fire-stealing Titan endured angry Zeus’ punishment anew. As it happens, the human liver does regenerate—a living donor can offer a section of his or her liver for transplantation.

The Yale center is developing programs to safeguard the health of these donors and improve their overall experience. Donors come in healthy and pain-free but frequently experience wound and back pain after the surgery, explained Emre. They need to be counseled about what to expect and given as much pain relief as possible. An education center provides articles about the procedure and videos of the surgery. After the part of liver is harvested, the donor will spend two days in intensive care with a dedicated nurse. Donors are then given a private room after discharge from the ICU. Throughout the process a donor advocacy team—a social worker, a nurse, and a physician—will participate in care with the surgical team. Each patient will be visited in the hospital by a psychologist, and donors are also offered such alternative therapies as Reiki, reflexology, massage, and acupuncture. The center is studying the impact of these interventions on the donors’ quality of life.
“We see patients as not only a body, a liver, or a kidney. We see them as a soul as well,” said Emre.