What is the alternative to medicine?
SECTION NINE: THE CONSULTATION IN SOCIAL CONTEXT
The setting the speech the style the point the outcome
Whom do we treat?
The presentation
Classification of patients?
The Worried Well
Discomfort
Contrarians
Fugitives
Preaching to the converted
Consumer health-ists
Difficult patients
Self–defeating patients
Anxious patients
Common–sense pluralists
One–offs
Cost
The functions of a physician
Good medicine
The great divide
The cobbler's children go to school barefoot…
Continuity and belonging
Style
Loyalty and power
Your own style
Fashion and style
The practice is organic
Could herbs help my husband?
SECTION TEN: STAGES IN THE CLINICAL PROCESS
The clinical process
Observation precedes the physical examination
The consultation as data collection
Records
Stages in the process
Judgements
Advice
Assessment of the terrain from the history and examination
The presentation of the patient
Time of day
The circadian moment
Our fractal histories
SECTION ELEVEN: CLINICAL EXAMINATION
The face
Tongue, eye and pulse
The voice
Hair
Chilly mortals
Containment
Bodily cavities in the axial skeleton
The musculoskeletal system
Zoning
Human cartography
SECTION TWELVE: SYSTEMIC REVIEW
Sleep
Fatigue
Confusion
Lungs and colon
Heart
Energy, Drive and fatiguability
Balance in the broadest sense
Digestive system
Teeth
Renal or sifting system
Skin, hair and circulation
Hands, feet and circulation
Menstrual history
Asymmetric symptoms
Seasonal
Snap observations
APPENDIX TO SECTIONS TEN, ELEVEN AND TWELVE: RECOMMENDATIONS SHEETS
Sheet 1. General recommendations towards helpful dietary habits
Sheet 2. Special recommendations towards reducing the provocation of insulin (as well as blood lipids) and reducing abdominal fat
Sheet 3. Iron
Sheet 4. Daily breathing exercise
Sheet 5. Seasonal fasting
Sheet 6. GOUT and high levels of uric acid in the blood
SECTION THIRTEEN: PATTERNS OF LIFE
Staging, cycling and timing
The primes of life
Integrality: comparing and contrasting
A chart of ages
Think of a number
Biorhythms
Biological time
Photosensitivity
Claims of sensitivity
Meteoropathy and barometric sensitivity
Acoustic hypersensitivity
Biological time and infectious illness
Recovery time
Sleep
The parallel brains
Modules of sleep
The alternation between sleeping and feeding
Ratios
In summary
SECTION FOURTEEN: THE PATIENT AS PERSONALITY
Four element theory
Contemporary theories of personality
Personality and age
The patient as personality
Alternators
Alternators as a failure of circadian entrainment
Mental states
Mood swings