A friend asked on FB for recommendations and advice for a good Doctor.
As I wrote a reply in a comment, it grew into being post-worthy (imo) so I decided to share it in the Natural Medicine Community on the Hive Blockchain where I know it can't be censored, it will always be there, and I can't get banned or my account deleted. I will share the link to this post as the comment on FB.
My reply
I have plenty of advice, as you know :-). First would be don't go to a doctor (unless by some miracle you find a holistic doctor who really acts as a doctor - the root meaning of doctor being teacher).
A question to consider:
Does the Doctor (teacher) need to be a registered doctor (ie. educated with curriculum designed by Pharmaceutical/Medical industry, for profit) and unable to recommend natural ways to heal (without being struck off the medical register)?
Doctors rarely teach us how to be healthy, because rarely do they know themselves. Instead they prescribe us pills or harmful medical procedures, as they have been taught.
Learn How and when to be your Own Doctor
We need to learn how to be our own doctor. It's actually not that difficult to do that, given some guidance. But one has to spend the time to read, listen or watch information, and have the confidence to experiment in our laboratory (our body) to be able to experientially learn (this brings wisdom).
No doctor or magic pill can help anyone to heal themselves. A competent health coach can however guide you in the right direction until you have learned yourself. Then the teacher can be let go and you become your own teacher.
It can sometimes be useful to go to a doctor for western diagnostic testing, but be careful to listen to the diagnosis but not the naming of a disease. Diseases are made up (a collection of symptoms given a name) and are rarely helpful. We need to treat the whole being, not the symptoms.
BEWARE. Some (if not many) western medicine diagnostic tests are harmful to health, eg. mammograms (thermography however is more accurate and harmless), MRI, biopsies and many more. So if doc suggests anything other than blood, urine or similar tests, be sure to research very well (in non western medicine sources such as Natural News) about the test before taking it. Also docs blood test are not very helpful unless they are using live blood analysis (very unlikely unless you search for one specifically).
Healing the Root Cause
Last but by no means least, without also doing inner work (emotional integration), even when we use natural healing methods that work well on the physical body, it will always be an uphill struggle to become dis-ease free.
Without the inner work it is not Holistic medicine. Holistic Medicine is the only medicine which really works.
I have many excellent books I am happy to share if you ask in a comment below, but here is one (public domain):
How and when to be your own Doctor https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4343).
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You may also check out the Healing Protocol page on my Healing Haven Website
Namaste
Atma
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