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Free Initial Consultation - Call Now (954) 448-1515 LIFE INSTINCT & HEALING PRESENCE This response submitted by Ronald B. Keys, JD, PhD on 7/21/06. What kind of a doctor are you? Or, wait a minute! who do you have sitting at your bedside? Try quantifying that..........What should be part of the emotional landscape of healing here? It has been said or implied that if you cannot measure something, what good is it? Jonas WB, Crawford CC. The Healing Presence: Can It Be Reliably Measured? J. Altern Complement Med. (2004) Oct:10(5):751-6. Well I can assure you that if someone needs you there with them in crisis, they don't care if you have a measurement tool with you or not. Religious and spiritual traditions from all cultures and times describe a spiritual or loving presence as a contributor to healing. In addition, there is a common belief that a special "presence" can exude from certain practitioners. The crisis situation may deal with strictly an emotional pain and emotional logic of its own that is neither rational, scientific or disciplined. My earliest training was in psychoanalysis, before my personal development in the law, clinical lab work, hospital rounds, and complementary medicine. Studies with examples of the life and death instincts were always part of my work, particularly in geriatrics. If you don't capture and enhance that will to live, to flourish, love and grow in the recovering neurological patient, you lose them. Hugs, lots of them, coupled with a steady, benign, kindly and patient presence near a recovering person can go a long way. Its not even the words but rather a kindly presence. Sometimes, its just called ".....being there for someone." Despite my detailed, lengthy articles and verbiage on this website, saying nothing but just being there is what is needed to activate a life instinct in a person who is plainly ambivalent about his or her recovery. It can be very re-assuring for a sleeping patient to wake up and find someone familiar and welcome, just sitting in a chair by the bedside. Just sitting there. This is an effortless way to help bring about activity levels and recovery in a patient. Nurses have always known this........... John Donne (1573-1631) wrote and said this famous passage below; it is not a poem--it is prose. It is a passage from Meditation 17, from Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, 1624. Below is the passage with modern spelling. No Man is an Island ...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee... -- John Donne This famous meditation of Donne's puts forth two essential ideas which are representative of the Renaissance era in which it was written: the same could be said for the AIDS Epidemic today or any disease taking a life away.... The idea that people are not isolated from one another, but that mankind is interconnected; and The vivid awareness of mortality that seems a natural outgrowth of a time when death was the constant companion of life. Donne brings these two themes together to affirm that any one man's death diminishes all of mankind, since all mankind is connected; yet that death itself is not so much to be feared as it at first seems. A healing presence, beyond the advanced instrumentation of ICU, or ER, beyond the rational, scientific and disciplined, beyond the bean-counter mentality alone, recognizes this............ Free Initial Consultation - Call Now (954) 448-1515 RONALD B. KEYS, JD, PhD CLINICAL & OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Ronald B. Keys, JD, PhD 2402 N. 28th Avenue Hollywood, Florida, 33020-1814 USA 954-448-1515 primary email: email@rkeysphd.com secondary email: rkeysphd@brainlink.com secondary email: rkeysphd@yahoo.com by pre-arrangements for voice/text chat: Mostly, Dr. Keys works as a Consulting PhD Doctor, usually from a distance, with and through a proper local anchor physician to order blood work. Advanced treatment protocols may develop from the advanced blood chemistries he requests. If you have no local doctor, Dr. Keys finds one through an affiliate physician network. His work is global, oftetimes involving patients from other countries as well as all over the continental USA. There are many tests and treatments to help people; Oftentimes, anchor physicians are not familiar or comfortable with them. Dr. Keys teaches and helps to direct individual patients AND their physicians with laboratory-work for these treatment options. This is measured work and clinical biochemistry. Opinion evidence standards are not employed here since this is a measured and laboratory-based or empirical study of the patient. Numbers are sought from the results of these tests that, usually, "...jump up and grab you..." that dictate what is needed and how much. Patient-advocacy is frequently involved to get advanced and necessary clinical biochemistries ordered and to help interpret them in filed reports..Chat room capabilities in voice or text, besides email, may be employed. This may include conference calls online. In a perfect world, if your physician knew everything, people like Dr. Keys would not exist. Physicians themselves are caught frequently in the traps of their own standards of care that may be very limited in many cases. Methods used by Dr. Keys are rational, scientific and disciplined. 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