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Homeopathy in the hospital
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An increasing number of hospital doctors note that homeopathy may be integrated into the system of health care.
With complementarity as the cue, homeopathic therapeutics in the hospital is justified by :
• the efficacy observed in many diseases,
• the specific answer that it may provide for a number of unresolved patient complaints when other solutions involve iatrogenic risks,
• the lack of toxicity that allows it to be associated with other treatments in paediatrics, surgery, gynaecology, obstetrics, geriatrics (in fragile, multi-medicated patients), etc. or in the treatment of heavy diseases (chemotherapy, radiotherapy, HIV/HCV, kidney failure, etc.).
Hospitals
The major interest that homeopathy induced in doctors led to the creation of homeopathic hospitals throughout the world and in particular in Europe and the USA.
The most famous hospitals in Europe are the Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital, the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital in England and Hôpital Saint-Jacques in Paris.
In Mexico, an estimated 120,000 consultations are held each year in official homeopathic dispensaries and hospitals.
Certain countries such as Russia, now have new homeopathy consultations in hospitals. In Russia, polyclinics with practising homeopath physicians, if necessary, refer their patients to hospital consultations. Thereby, the patients may be hospitalised and monitored by the attending homeopath physician. Besides this, specialised centres or clinics (group practices) allow patients to be monitored with a homeopathic treatment. The Moscow homeopathic centre, employing 120 homeopath physicians, celebrated its 90th anniversary in 2000.
In France, in Paris, Hôpital Saint-Jacques and the Hahnemann dispensary carry on a long tradition of homeopathic care.
Hôtel-Dieu and Hôpital Saint-Luc in Lyon, Hôpital Tenon in Paris and Hôpital Pellegrin in Bordeaux provide consultations with homeopath physicians in several specialities: gastro-enterology, paediatrics, gynaecology-obstetrics, ORL, etc...
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