The healing power of doing nothing
The father of clinical medicine, 17th century English doctor Thomas Sydenham said that sometimes “I have consulted my patients’ safety and my own reputation most effectually by doing nothing at all.”
Unfortunately, malpractice insurance guidelines pretty much prohibit modern doctors from following Sydenham’s wise counsel. Instead, they practice what has come to be known as “defensive medicine.”
–ken winston caine
Some similar posts:
- ‘First, do no harm!’ Hippocrates didn’t really say it…
- Send in the clowns
- Stop the naturopathy wars. CNME’s medically trained naturopaths need a DISTINCT title
- A brief history and report on the state of the art of naturopathy in the U.S. and U.K.
- Let’s revisit ‘discredited’ medicine show tonics and remedies of the late 19th, early 20th centuries — they may reveal some potent herbal formulas that would otherwise be lost to history
