I prefer to call who comes into my clinic and has some illness
a 'patient' rather than a client. The reason is that a'client'
seems to get thrown aside and doesn't have any respect and importance. While a patient has more attention with a practitioner of TCM or acupuncturist who deals
with the overall health and well-being of a' patient'.
I made a very conscious decision 10 years ago to go with 'patients'. I am not crazy about either, but the alternative is to come up with a new term that, in my experience, is most likely to be pretentious, awkward, difficult to explain (not unlike Bob Flaws lifelong struggle with the vacuity/deficiency thing - but more like a college I taught at for 10 years that tried to get rid of the terms 'teacher', 'professor' and 'instructor' and replace them all with 'Learning Manager' in the hopes of engendering students with the feeling they had more control and we (instructors) were just managing the situation. It just resulted in endless awkwardness, some degree of 'thought policing', etc. In the end, we all became instructors after years of whispering 'instructor' every day when noone was listening or looking.
I really dislike the term 'client' much more than 'patient'. To me, it is primarily a business term - and I don't sell widgets or investments or real estate. What I do is Medical, I have expertise, and people with health issues, come to me to use my expertise and skill to help with their health problems. For me, that makes them a 'patient' - and further - for people with chronic problems, who really do need PATIENCE to see through the process, I can even make use of the double entendre of that word!
What is a disease? A description of symptoms? But what's the actual disease? It doesn't exist. What is healing? A description of some process? Have we made up this illusion that healing takes time to occur? Again, it doesn't exist.
I don't have clients or patients. I don't offer healing or treat illness. I am simply a tool for transformation. And it is an instantaneous process, not something that requires a set of visits. I'm not doing any work, it doesn't come from me.
Why can't we simply assist people (who ask) with their transformation from one state to another, in the present moment?
If you friend asks you for help, it doesn't mean there is something wrong, they simply would like some assistance getting from one state to another.
Sometimes that means the "problem" of "don't want to mow the lawn" is solved by remembering to consider "hire help" which you may have forgotten was an option, instead of clinging to the resistance against mowing. All it requires is a shift in consiousness to allow the universe to supply you with a different outcome.
I suppose it partly depends on how strong your beliefs are. If you buy into the consensus reality that some set of symptoms is an illness that requires long and difficult treatments to address, because that's what everyone says, you may have forgotten to ask the question, "What have I not imagined about this situation that would provide a short and easy resolution?"
Often our training gets in the way, because we follow protocols, identify conditions, etc., when if our first tool we ever learned, assessment, included our imaginations instead of just books and tradition, we might find something remarkable and easy that allows for an instantaneous shift in reality and the dissolution of whatever we originally perceived as an obstacle.
We have this "power" within each of us, but sometimes it's easier to have someone else show us that change (transformation) is possible than to initiate it ourselves.
To heal buys into the theory that something is ill. If it's not an illness, it doesn't require healing. So, what is it, and how can it be something else than "drawing my attention right now?" That's where transformation begins.
Are we falling into a trap of simply mimicking a medical model that we need to retain our differences from? Lets face it, the language that western medical professionals use is terrible. 'fighting disease' 'the war on cancer' 'patient'.....
Webdoktor `a patient is healed when the body is set right or the story is heard to the end`
Comments
'patients or clients'
I prefer to call who comes into my clinic and has some illness
a 'patient' rather than a client. The reason is that a'client'
seems to get thrown aside and doesn't have any respect and importance. While a patient has more attention with a practitioner of TCM or acupuncturist who deals
with the overall health and well-being of a' patient'.
Patient or Client
I feel I treat patients and not clients.
According to Wikipedia - a patient is
"Any person recieving medical care, attention or treatment"
Patient is also the adjective form of patience!
Client:
Client, Latin root cliens means
"one who is obliged to make supplications to a powerful figure for material assistance"
I'll stick with treating patients
Ryan Funk
Lesser of Two Not Great Choices
I made a very conscious decision 10 years ago to go with 'patients'. I am not crazy about either, but the alternative is to come up with a new term that, in my experience, is most likely to be pretentious, awkward, difficult to explain (not unlike Bob Flaws lifelong struggle with the vacuity/deficiency thing - but more like a college I taught at for 10 years that tried to get rid of the terms 'teacher', 'professor' and 'instructor' and replace them all with 'Learning Manager' in the hopes of engendering students with the feeling they had more control and we (instructors) were just managing the situation. It just resulted in endless awkwardness, some degree of 'thought policing', etc. In the end, we all became instructors after years of whispering 'instructor' every day when noone was listening or looking.
I really dislike the term 'client' much more than 'patient'. To me, it is primarily a business term - and I don't sell widgets or investments or real estate. What I do is Medical, I have expertise, and people with health issues, come to me to use my expertise and skill to help with their health problems. For me, that makes them a 'patient' - and further - for people with chronic problems, who really do need PATIENCE to see through the process, I can even make use of the double entendre of that word!
Daniel Schulman
Charlottetown, PEI, Canada
Daniel Schulman
Charlottetown, PEI, Canada
I don't treat anyone
What is a disease? A description of symptoms? But what's the actual disease? It doesn't exist. What is healing? A description of some process? Have we made up this illusion that healing takes time to occur? Again, it doesn't exist.
I don't have clients or patients. I don't offer healing or treat illness. I am simply a tool for transformation. And it is an instantaneous process, not something that requires a set of visits. I'm not doing any work, it doesn't come from me.
Why can't we simply assist people (who ask) with their transformation from one state to another, in the present moment?
==Paul Garcia>
Dipl. ABT (NCCAOM), CMT
(modern alchemist)
Transforming Patients or Clients ?
Interesting Comment Paul
If diseases don't exist, healing is an illusion, what are you transforming?
Curious ?
AcuGuru
re: curious
Transforming reality.
If you friend asks you for help, it doesn't mean there is something wrong, they simply would like some assistance getting from one state to another.
Sometimes that means the "problem" of "don't want to mow the lawn" is solved by remembering to consider "hire help" which you may have forgotten was an option, instead of clinging to the resistance against mowing. All it requires is a shift in consiousness to allow the universe to supply you with a different outcome.
I suppose it partly depends on how strong your beliefs are. If you buy into the consensus reality that some set of symptoms is an illness that requires long and difficult treatments to address, because that's what everyone says, you may have forgotten to ask the question, "What have I not imagined about this situation that would provide a short and easy resolution?"
Often our training gets in the way, because we follow protocols, identify conditions, etc., when if our first tool we ever learned, assessment, included our imaginations instead of just books and tradition, we might find something remarkable and easy that allows for an instantaneous shift in reality and the dissolution of whatever we originally perceived as an obstacle.
We have this "power" within each of us, but sometimes it's easier to have someone else show us that change (transformation) is possible than to initiate it ourselves.
To heal buys into the theory that something is ill. If it's not an illness, it doesn't require healing. So, what is it, and how can it be something else than "drawing my attention right now?" That's where transformation begins.
==Paul>
Modeling an old medical model?
Are we falling into a trap of simply mimicking a medical model that we need to retain our differences from? Lets face it, the language that western medical professionals use is terrible. 'fighting disease' 'the war on cancer' 'patient'.....
Webdoktor `a patient is healed when the body is set right or the story is heard to the end`
Patient vs Client
I had a teacher you summed it up well. She said Dr's have patients, hair dressers have clients.
Kaleb