Guest guest Posted June 19, 2004 Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 Identifying causes or etiologies of disease (and then alerting the patient to removing the causes) is not included within differential diagnostic process to the best of my knowledge. If a person's improper diet were a contributing cause to their damp heat diff. dx, we would be remiss in not mentioning this as practitioners of medicine. It would help enormously in potentiating the herbal prescription and, if continued, help prevent relapse of their condition. I think the rift in understanding here lies more in semantics--I never claimed I would diagnose someone with meditation vacuity. It simply involves removing causes, like drinking water so as not to die of thirst (not give them a formula for water vacuity), and stoping alcohol (not inebriation repletion). That's all I'm saying. Thanks, Shanna At 7:02 AM +0000 6/19/04, wrote: >and even if it was or is a great technique for restoring health, >there is still the issue of differential dx and necessity of medical >training. does one need to be trained in medicne and differential >diagnosis to teach or practice such a technique. .... the point is >that such practices are healthful and someone needs to teach them, >but such practices are not medicine because no diff dx is done. Our >medical training is geared towards expertise in diff dx. If one is >not interested in developing this expertise, whether western, >japanese, chinese, etc., I am not sure why one would want to go to >medical school in the first place? It would just be annoying. -- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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