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  <title><![CDATA[Comment on Connecting Traditional Medicine with Complementary Therapies]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Thanks Gerry, great food for thought, look forward to hearing more!]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2018 12:25:53 +0100</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[I'd would like to second what Earle has said above.

This inaugural convention was an excellent starting point to help us move towards a more integrative and holistic appreciation of health and wellbeing.  By bringing together the allopathic medical world with the complementary therapy world, Dr Toh Wong and Dr Naveed Akhtar succeeded in opening eyes, hearts and minds, and making us all think that much more about what we do.   

The various discussions about using complementary therapies to ease the burden on the NHS suggest this is going to be a keen area of debate of which the MTI and we as therapists need to be a part.  We will be continuing this debate as part of the MTI Conference next year.
 
I am in the throes of writing up my own thoughts and experiences of this fascinating weekend which included some invaluable insights from a GP's perspective about why they don't refer to complementary therapies and also what could be done to encourage them to do so. I will be writing an article about this very shortly!  

I agree that we do need to think about what we do differently to fit the situation. But perhaps there is also a need for a PARADIGM SHIFT in how we deal with health and wellbeing?  

We could be thinking about how we promote good health and wellbeing (and take a truly holistic view of a person - body-mind-emotions-spirit as one), rather than focusing on how we treat ill-health.  And how we could be using other models of working, eg. social prescribing, and community health 'triaging' to make alternatives available to people.  To quote Henry Ford and Tony Robbins, "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got."  This first Integrative Health Convention has invited us all to think differently.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2018 14:25:48 +0100</pubDate>
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