I hope you can help me. I have heard this quote several times at lectures but have no idea how accurate it is. Does anyone actually know the percentage of licensed homeopaths who give up practising during the first 2 years?
Thanks. Clare

This can not be true! Actually far from it. And from whoever you have heard it must be a person to meet. Did you never ask that person what is the source of his information? Because as far as I know not even 10% homeopaths leave their practise. Actually there are very few who do that. It's not easy to do that. Practise of Homeopathy is more like an addiction - once you get the hang of it, you can't just wrap it up. It's intoxicating!!

Just check out if that person is talking about the world war II time. At that time 75% of homeopaths were enlisted in the army!
Just kidding

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Clare

There was a student at LCOH who did research into this for his fourth year project. Perhaps if you got in touch with them, they could help.

Perhaps you could also check with the SoH, as they may also have figures or the UKHMA.

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Wow, this is a curious figure--wonder where it comes from.

From my graduating class (3 years ago), I know that all of us are in at least a part-time practice. MDs who graduated in our class were also busy specializing their practices--cardiology AND homeopathy...and they were in practice full time before enrolling. Still are.

Most of us in full time practice are still building up caseloads--which means we're at it full time and then some. I don't think our school or class is atypical, either, judging from the numbers of homeopaths who show up to seminars which take place in Toronto--usually 300-400 practitioners show up.

I'd like to know where this "statistic" comes from.

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Hi Clare

I Think you are right about many homeopaths in UK giving up after a short time - I have also read something- but I don't think it was as high as 75%- I will keep looking for the article !

The problem with practising in the UK is that people are not used to paying for their healthcare and many are reluctant to after years of looking to the state to foot the bill!

It's very frustrating!!

I know I am the only person from my class that is still practicing 8 yrs later. Half of the people I graduated with had given up within the first 3 years.

In Australia, there is definitely this problem. I do not know if it is 75%, but I think it is closer to 50%.

I suspect this is because there is no screening process when students are accepted for homoeopathic training, and many people unsuitable for healing, unsuitable for running their own business, or unsuitable for all the bloody hard work homoeopathic prescribing entails, end up in the courses. Also, there is no support once people get out into the world, and in fact there is a great deal of hostility or, at the very least, indifference to what we do by the medical profession and the media, if not our own families.

It can be very isolationg in the early years, and with very little feedback for or monitoring of practitioners, it is too easy to fall into bad habits. Once the bad habits start, even the initial successes wane.

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clare, not only this, but a recent study by the soc hom revealed that of those who do practice in the uk, something like 90% earn less than 5k pa.

AAAAaaaagh!!!
All this is a bit scary for someone (ME!) about to embark on a new life - the study of and hopefully, making a career of homoeopathy!!! Eeek!
Lila

I endorse everything that has been said about UK homeopaths. Most work part time on another job as it is the only way to earn enough money to live. Also in the UK homeopathy is not well known out of the big cities so it is a constant battle to earn enough to consider continuing. 98% of my patients are from recommendation or other family members of a patient. I get very few from the Yellow Pages. I get a few from the Practical Homeopathy courses that I run each term and a few from the gym I work out in where I do have an advert. Most people ask me "Do you do massage or that thing with oils"? GP's rarely recommend us but say that homeopathy doesn;t work and therefore the patient will be wasting their money!! It only costs about 6 doctor's prescriptions to see a homeopath for the first time. And when you think the doctor may give 2 or 3 drugs to take, which don't work or set up a reaction so you have to go back for more , need I say more?? The doctor will only give enough pills for a month so you have to buy more, in a chronic complaint.
Children and the elderly and people with some chronic complaints don't pay at all so why pay for a homeopath if they get doctor's stuff for free!!They don't care if it doesn't work, and the medication is to control rather than cure as they just go back for more free tablets.

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