Conscious Consultation
The Power of Conscious Consultation
During my medical training, I noticed with interest how different personalities that are all drawn to medicine gravitate towards different specialties. A prototype developed identifying the surgeons from the physicians, the GPs from the radiologists and the pathologists from the psychiatrists. Oncology itself had a prototype.
I never tried to measure whether bedside manner correlated with patient outcomes but if I were to estimate from a distance, those who I admired for their bedside manner tended to achieve results superior to what would otherwise have been estimated in the literature based on clinical characteristics alone.
Energetic Transmission
I perceive there is an energetic transmission that occurs during a doctor-patient consultation. A vibrational frequency that is generated within the practitioner and whether knowingly or not transmitted through to the patient or client. Can this energy be harnessed and optimised to improve outcomes? There are studies demonstrating that practitioner doubt can be communicated and lead to a physical manifestation within the recipient. So then can practitioner optimism create a healing transmission that results in improvement?
How Energetic Transmission Can Influence Clinical Practice
Although there is a multidimensional nature to this energetic transmission that transcends physical proximity, there is an additional strength that I perceive occurs in the physical presence of a conscious practitioner. An energetic transmission that if harnessed appropriately can influence the therapeutic outcome.
There are studies that show us that medicine practiced with compassion and kindness improves patient outcomes. Being aware of the influence that "bedside manner" has gives practitioners another tool to use during treatment.
