Why Not Antibiotics? Why Not?

Avoiding “Hello Magazine” in favour of a steemit post ... I’m sitting waiting for Mia to finish her piano lesson. She’s learned in one week what her teacher says students learn in months. She wants to move through the grades fast before September and she’s unschooled so she has plenty ty of time. Got to love unschooling!

So, whilst they are working, piano keys tinkling, I’m thinking about a surprising message I just received on my way in.

Subject is kidney infections. A contact of mine has to pay out £300 for a specialised antibiotic for a kidney infection so she came to ask if Homeopathy can be used instead. I said yes and she asked me “what will it cost?” £125 for a first appointment and £75 for any follow up. Most probably she’ll only need the one appointment to do more than the antibiotic will do.
She says ‘I was right. Too expensive’. So now she’ll pay £300 for an antibiotic and most likely it will work and then return.

I’ve just been through this process with a patient who decided she was too ill to Skype for a similar problem, so she went (out of the house) to the doctor and got some antibiotics. The antibiotics haven’t worked so she had to come Skype with me.

I don’t see the logic of this but I suppose the message is that at knee jerk level they trust what they are used to, even though they see repeated evidence it doesn’t work and despite concerns they have about antibiotics and side effects.

It’s hard to break old patterns.

Irony in the first case is that the patient also has rheumatoid arthritis (which I have treated and cured in other patients) and her cheap £125 consult would not only deal with the underlying susceptibility to this kidney infection and prevent it recurring (in my repeated experience) but it would likely go some way toward making a dent on her RA and any other problems she has.

We are very used to looking at all our problems as disconnected.
I’m guessing she’ll be back, £300 lighter, with a recurrence of her kidney infection ... but I guess this will bring her to accidental treatment for her autoimmune disease (RA).

We all have our own paths and a homeopath has to be patient and mop up when someone appears.
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