How much time you generally expend on one patient during homeopathic consultation or case analysis.

If you properly take a case homopathically. Then it needs one hour to two hours.

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Prof Dr. Arshad Sheikh, M.Sc, DHMS, RHMP
Government Zamindar Degree Science Collge, G.T Rd
Visiting Prof, Tahir Homeopathic Medical College.

Classical homeopathic prescribers take atleast two hours on one patient especially those who have specilities on miasm just like Dr. Banerjee.

My procedure and time consuming varies from patient to patient. I took 15 to 30 minutes on a patient.

Stranger,

It depends on why they've come to see you. If they have a sore throat, you really need to know how to take an acute case and be sure you don't mix up their chronic symptoms and include them in your repertorization. In that case, a two hour case would surely be inappropriate.

In a sore throat, you would ask:
What side did it start on? Where is it now?
Is one side worse than the other?
What is the sensation?
What's it like swallowing?
What helps it--hot drinks? Cold drinks?
What makes it worse--hot, cold, empty swallowing, etc.
Did it come on suddenly or gradually?
Is there an etiology, such as exposure to cold, dry winds, etc.
What's the appearance--bright red? white patches on tonsils, etc.?
Are there swollen glands?
Is there bad breath?
Salivation?
Is there a striking mental/emotional feature, like the Ars. restlessness and anxiety and need for company?
Is there a clear agg. time, like the Lyc. < 4-8 PM

And then, you should have a sore throat differential you can refer to, which is to say,
there are remedies that are commonly used in sore throats, like Belladonna, Merc., Lachesis, Phytolacca, Lac-can., Arsenicum, Lyc., Aconite, Rhust tox, Bapt., Arum trip., Nit-ac., etc. that have distinctive pictures, and if your client matches one of them, your work is over very quickly, maybe in 15 or 20 minutes, and you can be on to your next patient.

About 20% of the time, your differential isn't going to help you, and for those cases you'll have to use your repertory, and hopefully you'll have CARA or MacRepertory to make this go faster.

Every patient does not have to be seen for 2 hours.

Snoopy

[ 02. February 2003, 18:23: Message edited by: Snoopy ]

For a first consultation 2 hours and follow ups 1/2 to 1 hour. This is how long I usually have my patients in for.

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In Pakistan, average time given to a patient is from 15-45 minutes.

[ 03. February 2003, 07:14: Message edited by: Abdullah ]

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Abdullah<br />I know too little

For chronic, I usually take between 2-3 hours. I often do additional research and get back to the client with a remedy at another time. The first follow up is 1/2-1 hour and additional follow ups are usually 15 minutes-1/2 hour. For acutes, it's usually 15 minutes-1/2 hour.

[ 03. February 2003, 12:43: Message edited by: sreischman ]

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Shirley Reischman

You mean, in one sitting you just take the case and then study it through books and then prescribe a medicine? Have I got it right?

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Abdullah<br />I know too little

Snoopy you seems to be very reliastiac. you have good approach. Taking entire symptoms of a patient is not positive approach.

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Muhammad Raza Hussain<br />Z.C Post Graudate College

Abdullah,

Don't become the spokesman of Pakistan. You know nothing about pakistan. Dr. Israr (writer in monthly MOALIJ, a homeopathic magazine) wrote that all classical homeopathic doctor in Pakistan generally take one hour to two hours in each visit. Even in follow up they spend one hour minimum.