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TCM Documentation II

…If you ask any TCM practitioner what the first thing that comes to his mind regarding documentation, he would most likely answer that it is a necessary evil. That is, it is something that needs to be done but is really is the most boring aspect of treating a patient. I think most of you would be empathetic to this opinion. I haven’t met one clinician who doesn’t think that documenting is their least favorite thing to do.

 

However, as I mentioned in the previous blog, documentation is the most important aspect to patient care. First of all, with proper documentation, the practitioner is able to examine his overall approach to treating the patient. He can see if the patient is actually progressing or not and then can make the necessary changes to the treatment protocol.

 

We, healthcare professionals, rarely appreciate this. I mentioned how the variables in TCM documentation are different than in Western medicine. I will write a lot more about the two key TCM objective variables, Pulse Diagnosis and Tongue Diagnosis, in future blogs. It is enough for you to realize that, as a TCM practitioner, I look at these variables as key to telling me how the patient is progressing.

 

Documenting the progression of these two variables is most important in determining whether the current treatment protocol is satisfactory or not. In fact, if I don’t see any change with these factors after a few treatments, I will change up the treatment plan. Again, this point is the reason why documenting accurately is so important.

 

You’ll be surprised how many healthcare practitioners do not share this view. I just have to point out their treatment success compared to mine. I tell any TCM practitioner that is just starting off that the most important way to be the most effective practitioner is to learn to document properly.

The effects of the COVID virus is being felt in the healthcare community, in a big way. I’m sure that this is not a revelation to most of you. However, I’m also confident that most of you are not appreciating just how the manner in treating patients is being affected.

 

As I have explained before, what makes TCM so unique is the natural manner that a practitioner uses to both diagnose and treat. What I mean by natural is how TCM practitioner uses his own senses, such as touch and feel, as instruments to treat a patient. With the advent of policies such as wearing masks/face shields or the need now to perform temperature checks on every patient has definitely altered the pristine nature of the treatment. Yes, I am speaking from personal experience of my current treatment of patients.

 

However, as with any factor that causes such a change to society, there are avenues by which members of society can help to curb the intensity of these effects. Most of you appreciate that COVID is a virus and thus there are symptoms that are associated with it, as with any other virus like the flu. The Western medical community naturally looks to treat such a virus, like COVID, by finding artificial means.

 

What do I mean by artificial means? If you are keeping up with the Western medical establishment’s response, you should be realizing that they feel that a vaccine is the surest way to combat the virus. They push this vaccine without listing the ingredients in the vaccine and publishing any trials that this vaccine is going through. However, what is most pertinent to this blog is their lack of acknowledging the natural means that are effective in treating, at the very least, the symptoms of the virus.

 

In the next blog, I will address how certain TCM protocols are very effective in treating COVID symptoms…

 
 
 

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