Visiting Doctors

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I. Introduction - The Four Healing Paradigms

II. When It Is Wise To Visit A Doctor

III. Cautions When Visiting Doctors

IV. Suggestions About Visiting Doctors

V. Interacting With Doctors During A Nutritional Balancing Program

VI. Benign Symptoms That Occur In Most People During A Nutritional Balancing Program

Part I.  INTRODUCTION - THE FOUR HEALING PARADIGMS

Before discussing when to visit a doctor, and cautions with doctors, let us discuss the four most common paradigms or ways of looking at health and disease.

Most people do not realize that all healing is based upon a world view or paradigm of how the body works and what it requires.  Here are the four basic healing approaches or paradigms:

1. Diagnose-and-Treat.  This is the paradigm of traditional, conventional, allopathic, and most holistic and naturopathic medical care.  To most people, this is the only healing paradigm.  They will find the other three rather strange, perhaps.

In this paradigm or way of looking at things,  disease is caused by what may be called disease entities.  The practice of medicine is to identify or diagnose a person’s diseases.  Then one “treats”, which means to remove or “cure”, these entities.

To remove disease entities, conventional medical doctors use mainly drugs and surgery.  Holistic and naturopathic doctors and nutritionists may use herbs, vitamins, hormones, chelation, homeopathy, electrical machines or a few other methods.  That is the essential difference between regular doctors and holistic and natural ones.  Note that both work within the same diagnose-and-treat paradigm.

2. Self-Help, Self-Education, and Support Groups.  This paradigm is the one found in thousands of self-help books and in thousands more articles on the internet, in magazines and other publications.  It does not depend on professionals such as doctors, although they often write the articles.

Instead, it depends on assessing one’s one needs and supplying the body with whatever it needs.  This may include rest, exercise, the right food, the right supplements, and anything else that one might imagine to help heal the body.  For example, it might include massage, enemas, skin brushing or any of a hundred other methods.

This paradigm is simple, for which reason people like it very much.  One is also in control of one’s life, which many people like.  It is often less costly, which many people enjoy, as well.

Some doctors like this paradigm because they do not take responsibility for the health of another person.  Therefore, they have little legal liability.  Also, it does not take up their time the way seeing patients does.  As a result, this is a widespread healing paradigm that most people have used, at times.

3. Spiritual and Religious Healing.  This paradigm is less well known.  It is seen on television all day if one watches Christian television, but most people do not watch these programs.

The spiritual or religious healing paradigm depends upon prayer and intervention by advanced beings (God).  First, one is encouraged to pray hard for healing, or for “Thy Will be done”. Second, one may also need to claim healing for oneself.  When done properly, an intervention by an advanced being (God) occurs, and often deep and permanent healing may occur.

Note: If you believe you are already healed, you shall be healed! Faith in God heals all things. 

In addition to Christian healing, this paradigm is used by shamans, spiritual and religious healers, and medicine men throughout the world, who understand it well.  It is considered a traditional and time-tested healing paradigm and method in many older cultures.  Among these people, it is as popular and well-known as the diagnose-and-treat method of Western cultures. (Shamans, spiritual and religious healers may not be praying to the right God, so beware). 

4. Development.  This paradigm is much less well known.  This website, in fact, contains as much information about it as most any source on the planet.  This paradigm has been used in monasteries for millennia.  However, it has not been shared with the public, for various reasons.  However, it is time to share it and teach it, which is why it appears on this website.

Development is a precise process that alters the structure and functioning of the human and animal bodies in such a way that it becomes less compatible or less hospitable to all disease and dysfunctions.  That is the essence of development.

Like the spiritual or religious paradigm, the development paradigm does not depend upon diagnosis of disease entities and their removal.  Also, like the spiritual healing paradigm, it depends upon the action of advanced beings who assist the process, especially later in the process of development.

Unlike the spiritual paradigm, the development paradigm is based on well-known Western and Eastern scientific principles such as  metabolic typing, stages of stress, enhancing adaptive energy or vitality, detoxification and others.

Development can be undertaken by oneself, at least in its early stages.  However, it is not really a self-help method because it is involved and a few mistakes can completely destroy its effectiveness.

A modern example of the development paradigm is nutritional balancing.  It seems to be like the medical and nutritional paradigms that are all around us.  However, it is very different, which is why it causes confusion for doctors and patients alike. 

Part II.  WHEN TO VISIT A DOCTOR

Most of the time, the following situations warrant or require a visit to a conventional doctor:

1. Tumors.  A tumor, swelling or lump can indicate a number of conditions.  Some of these are fatty tumors, cysts, infection, swollen lymph nodes, keratoses, and cancer.  Telling these apart is not always easy.  However, any hard swelling can be cancerous, and is best checked by a regular doctor.

2. Chest Pain.  This can be due to many conditions.  A very common cause during a nutritional balancing program is chest wall pain, also called costochondritis.  This is totally benign. 

Chest pain can also be caused by lung or bronchial conditions, esophageal conditions, stomach conditions, but also by a heart attack.  If you are not sure and have ruled out chest wall pain if you are on a nutritional balancing program, then having the symptom checked by a physician is a good idea.

3. Bleeding, either rectally, blood in the semen, or coughing up blood.  Once again, many factors can cause bleeding.  The most common cause of fresh blood by rectum is hemorrhoids, a condition that is uncomfortable but not usually serious.  Occasionally, a colonic or rectal polyp will break off, causing some bleeding.  However, rectal bleeding can also be caused by colon cancer or rectal cancer, and this is best diagnosed by a regular physician.

Blood in the semen is often caused by stress.  However, it can indicate prostate cancer, or cancer in other organs such as the testis.

Coughing up blood can occur due to breakage of a blood vessel in the windpipe or lung, or occasionally due to other irritation.  But it could indicate a lung problem that is more serous.

4. Paralysis OR Extreme Numbness or Tingling.  This does not have too many causes.  The most important cause is a stroke, and this requires medical attention immediately.

Occasionally, numbness or tingling is due to dehydration, an infection, sleeping in an uncomfortable position, and more rarely due to a spider bite or diabetes if it is in the feet.  However, this is usually a more important symptom that should not be ignored.

5. Pain in the Lower Right Quadrant of the Abdomen, or Any Severe Abdominal Pain.  This pain has more than a dozen causes.  These include benign causes such as intestinal gas and bloating, stress, muscle tension, and dehdyration.  These are usually fairly easy to overcome.

Pain can also be due to infections.  Lower right quadrant abdominal pain can be due to appendicitis, which can be a medical emergency, so please do not ignore it.  It may also be due to colitis, irritable bowel syndrome or diverticulitis.  These are inflammatory conditions of the colon that may be easy to correct, or may not. 

Occasionally, parasitic infections, food poisoning or just overeating or eating improper food combinations can cause abdominal pain. Rarely, one can have an intestinal blockage, which is a medical emergency.

During nutritional balancing programs, many clients experience third center pain and gall bladder pain.  These are both absolutely benign and a result of healing, not disease.

6. Other Pain.  Severe headache should be evaluated by a doctor, since it could be due to stroke.  Pain and swelling in a leg should also be evaluated, as it could be due to cellulitis or a blood clot in a leg.  Severe pain in the area of the kidney or adrenal gland or bladder can be due to passing a kidney stone, and this can also be a medical emergency.  Pain in the gall bladder area can be due to passing a gall stone, and this, too, need to be evaluated medically.

Structural pain, such as pain in the back, neck, hips or legs, has many causes.  Some are benign, such as dehydration, which can cause kidney pain.  At times, one needs a chiropractic adjustment, or need to do the gentle spinal twist exercise we recommend to realign and loosen the spine. 

At other times, structural pain can be due to inflammation, infection, a slipped intervertebral disc, or even bone or other cancer in the body.  Such pain should be checked by a doctor if no immediate cause is apparent.

7. Severe Breathing Problems.  This is usually a medical emergency that could be due to a blockage in the trachea, pneumonia, asthma, COPD, and rarely something else.  This should also be checked by a doctor quickly.

8. A fever of 104 F. or Higher.  This is usually due to an infection.  A very high fever will dehydrate the body if you don’t drink a lot of water.  It may also have other consequences such as seizures if it is not evaluated properly.

Part III.  CAUTIONS WHEN VISITING DOCTORS

1. Fear.  Many of our clients who visit doctors return full of fear.  At times, doctors may feel they need to scare people so the people will comply with their suggestions.  At other times, the doctors are afraid, and the patients pick up the doctor’s vibration of fear.

Also, modern allopathic medical care does not offer much hope for many common conditions such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, dementia, delayed development and even chronic infections.  Doctors must explain this to people, and it sounds very negative because it is negative.

In addition, some professionals, including some doctors, are energy vampires.  Instilling fear in people helps enable them to steal some energy from the person.  This unfortunate phenomenon is described in the article about Vampirism on this website.  Fear, however, always slows real healing.

2. Labeling.  At times, getting a diagnosis relieves anxiety and uncertainty, and is very positive.  For many people, however, “getting a label” for one’s symptoms can lock a person into a new identity as “a diabetic” or “bipolar”, or any of a thousand other names.  If the condition is serious, it can be very depressing.  This can actually hold a person in the condition.

3. Medical disease.  This is the common phenomenon in which a doctor tells a patient - either directly with words or with innuendo and hints - that there is little that can be done and one must learn to just live with one’s symptoms.

This serious problem can apply to anyone of any age.  The effect is to take away all hope.  This often leads to depression and even despair and suicide. 

4. Improper Diagnoses are more common than one may think, up to 50% for some types of medical conditions.  Improper diagnoses can easily lead to intense fear and invasive and toxic therapies that are really not needed at all.

5. Side Effects OR “Adverse Effects” of tests and many drugs is another major problem with modern allopathic medicine today.  It is also a problem with some holistic and natural healing methods such as IV vitamins, bio-identical hormone therapy, homeopathy, herbal medicine and others.

6. Paradigm limitations.  The allopathic diagnose-and-treat model has a limited number of diagnostic labels, limitations on the tests that are performed, and only certain therapies are permitted.

For example, among diagnoses, at this time (2016) brain fog, adrenal exhaustion and chronic fatigue syndrome are not commonly diagnosed.  Tests such as hair mineral testing are not used. Therapies such as mineral and vitamin therapy is not commonly used.

Another paradigm limitation is that most of the drugs used by allopathic doctors are fairly toxic.  This also includes anesthesia used in surgery.  This automatically reduces the benefits of these products, to some degree, and often limits the duration or amount that can be given.

Another paradigm limitation is that medical doctors do not biochemically rebuild the body.  This is simply not part of their paradigm.

7. Poor Quality Medical Practice.  I have noticed in the past few years that there is a lot of poor quality medical diagnosis going on.  By this I mean that within the medical paradigm and the medical system, there seems to be more and more poor quality work being done by doctors.  I do not know why this is so, but please be careful for this reason.

8. Beware of “Politically Correct“ Medicine.  Today, conventional doctors do not answer directly to their patients.  As a result, you may not obtain the truth when you go to your doctor. 

A. Defensive Medicine.  For example, many doctors practice defensive medicine.  This is the use of medical tests, diagnoses, and treatments based on satisfying the demands of attorneys, rather than based only upon medical judgement.

It means you may not get the truth about your condition because the doctor may be afraid you would sue him or her if the diagnosis, prescription or treatment is incorrect. 

Therefore, doctors tend to “err” or lean toward giving people more serious diagnoses, since in this way the chances of being sued for an error are less.  In other words, if the condition turns out to be benign, you will usually be relieved, not angry with your doctor.

B. Satisfying Licensing Boards.  Doctors also alter their treatment to satisfy the demands of their licensing boards.  For example, licensing boards in most nations require doctors to promote vaccination, even though it is a very dangerous practice.  If a doctor does not do this, he will lose his medical license, so most doctors go along, no matter what they may think privately.  For more on this important topic, please read Your Doctor’s Priorities on this website.

C. Satisfying the Government.  In some situations, doctors today must comply with extensive government regulations such as those of Medicare, Medcaid in the United States, and national health care rules in many European, Canadian and Asian nations.  These can limit the time the doctor spends, the therapies he uses, and the tests he recommends.
 
D. Satisfying Insurers.  In some nations, doctors must answer to insurance companies, health maintenance organizations, hospital boards and others.  These, too, affect the way doctors practice their trade including their diagnostic testing methods and their therapeutics.

9. Hospital Problems. Other problems associated with going to emergency rooms and hospitals also include picking up infections.  This is a very serious problem today.  The more complex procedures such as surgery also present opportunities for errors.  While some surgery is amazing and life-saving, some or perhaps much of it is not needed if natural therapies were employed.

10. The Insurance Trap.  Too much insurance, such as first dollar coverage with little copayment, or Medicare or Medicaid in America, can easily be a trap.  It can cause a person spend too much time with doctors because the person does not have to pay for it.

So if you are buying health insurance, and you are on a nutritional balancing program, I suggest only a catastrophic health insurance policy, and no drug insurance.

There is another reason for this.  In life, if you pay for a service, you are much more likely to be in charge of the situation.  If someone else pays, they are in charge.  This is a big problem for citizens in nations with government-run health care systems.  You may get “free” care, but you lose control in this important area of your life.
 
Part IV.  SUGGESTIONS ABOUT DOCTOR VISITS
 
1. Recommending Doctor Visits.  I never discourage people from going to a doctor.  Diagnoses can be useful, at times.  Also, it would be irresponsible not to send a person to a doctor for the conditions listed above.

2. Look for a Good Diagnostician. The best doctor to visit, in my experience, is an experienced and excellent diagnostician.  This means a doctor who is excellent at identifying health conditions.  This could be a holistic doctor, but it might not be.

The reason is that the goal is first to find out what is going on.  Therapy can come later, but within the medical paradigm therapy is dependent upon proper diagnosis.  Some doctors are much better at diagnosis than others.

3. Following Doctor’s Advice.  If you visit a doctor, you can listen to his opinions and then decide whether or not you will follow the advice.  The doctor may pressure you to go along with his advice, but you are in charge, at least in America, at the present time (2016).  In Europe and Canada, which have government-run health care systems, one has less say about this and soon this may also be the case in the USA.

If you do not want to follow a doctor’s advice, it is best to just say thank you and leave.  If the doctor wants to immediately do a test, procedure or something else, and you want to wait, then say, “I plan to get a second opinion”.  This is important to know. 

Doctors usually respect this attitude.  However, it is very upsetting for doctors if you say you will not follow their advice.  So do not say this to a doctor.

Part V. INTERACTING WITH DOCTORS DURING A NUTRITIONAL BALANCING PROGRAM

1. Talking About Nutritional Balancing.  Some of our clients want to tell their doctors about nutritional balancing, for various reasons.  I suggest that you do not mention nutritional balancing to doctors.

The reasons are:

a. Most doctors are not interested, and they do not want to learn from you.

b. It is so different from their way of doing things that if you describe it properly, it will sound very foreign.  They may just think you are a kook, which is not helpful for you.

c. As a result, there is little benefit to talking about it.
 
2. Safety.  Nutritional balancing is very safe, or I would not offer it.  In our experience of 35 years with this program, symptoms will arise in most people that are healing reactions.  However, almost all symptoms that arise during a program are evidence of deep healing, and not diseases. Medical interventions are very rarely needed or helpful for these healing symptoms.

This is not true of other holistic programs, in my experience, but it is true of nutritional balancing.  One reason for this is that the program focuses on balancing the body.  All clients need to know this so they do not become upset each time a retracing symptom arises. 

3. Retracing Confusion.  Retracing and healing reactions are very confusing for doctors and patients alike.  This occurs because 1) the symptoms of retracing often appears similar to those of disease, and 2) doctors are not familiar with the concept of healing reactions.

As a result, these reactions are easily confused with medical conditions.  Calling them diseases amounts to misdiagnosis.

Next, most doctors will recommend drug or other therapy for the reactions, even though this is not needed, and usually will not be effective.

4. A second Opinion.  Our clients may call me for my opinion about a serious medical question and can also reach out to other doctors.

Part VI. BENIGN SYMPTOMS THAT MOST PEOPLE EXPERIENCE DURING A NUTRITIONAL BALANCING PROGRAM

To be continued.... 

Sources: Lawrence Wilson, MD  

 More to Read: Top Ten Reasons to Avoid Your Doctor

Disclaimer
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I earned and completed my certification in holistic nutrition and in Functional Diagnostic Nutrition and I am now practicing Hair Mineral Analysis and Nutritional Balancing Science to people all over the globe from my home in Vancouver, British Columbia.  

With the help of Dr. Lawrence Wilson, whom I work with, we develop a finely tuned nutritional balancing program designed to balance your body based on the results of regular hair mineral analysis testing and your specific health status.   

Note that I do not diagnose anyone and my goal is simply to put my clients on the right track with nutrition, so they can begin to balance their biochemistry. 

You can contact me here.