Mission Success: Chronic case taking - Part 2

"Case well taken is a case half cured". A physician with knowledge of medicine and disease along with being an unprejudiced observer can collect the facts from the patient in order to form a totality and find the similimum.

Organon of Medicine has laid out all the precise guidelines for the physician to become an expert in case-taking. This second session on Chronic Case-taking by Dr. AnoopNigwekar will begin with the explanation of instructions to the physician given by Samuel Hahnemann king in the 6th edition of Organon of Medicine (Aphorisms 83 - 141).

He will guide on the topics

• Instructions to the physician during case-taking
• What should a physician do once a patient has narrated his complaints
• How to elicit precise information from patient
• Importance of occupation, diet, mode of living
• Basics of communication skills
• Knowledge, attitude, behaviour, and skills a physician should possess

The theory is useful only if it is applied in practice. This session will come alive when Dr. Anoop narrates his clinical cases. With his comprehensive homeopathic experience, he will begin a case study of a child followed by cases in a young man and elderly people. Each case is explained in brief with the formation of the totality of symptoms. Dr. Anoop will further explore the symptom presentation in different repertories and the selection of rubric pertaining to the symptom.

This session is a complete guidebook on chronic case-taking with Hahnemannian principles and application in clinical practice.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the method of case taking in children, adults & aged
• Understand the homeopathic concept of Chronic disease
• Concept of unprejudiced – connection with aphorisms of Organon
• Finding a rubric for mental symptom
• What is the difference in various repertories for the same rubric and why?