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Human Healing - Including a student-penned report on a radical new undergraduate medical special study module, a BMJ editorial and original research on the consultation.

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  • Human Healing and Creative Encounter - Some comments and references on Human Healing.
    Notes and References from David Reilly's teaching on this subject. Updated November 2006. Download Word document (745kb).
  • Creative Consulting - The series published in the Student BMJ.
    These articles explore some aspects of become more effective in your
    encounters and give some background information and theory, including some aspects of mind-body medicine.
    1. Creative consulting: You can make a difference. Download pdf (306kb).
    2. Creative consulting: Why aim for it? Download pdf (528kb).
    3. Creative consulting: How to make the room disappear. Download pdf (770kb).
    4. Creative consulting: Germinating recovery. What is a healing response? Download pdf (517kb).
    5. Creative consulting: What modifies a healing response? Download pdf (773kb).
    6. Creative consulting: More about placebos? Download pdf (996kb).
    7. Creative consulting: Psychoneuroimmunology, the mindbody Download pdf (827kb).
  • Holism in primary care: The views of Scotland's general practitioners .
    Primary Health Care Research and Development 2005; 6: 320-328. Download pdf (95kb).
  • BMJ Editorial Enhancing Human Healing.
    Calls for a direct study of human healing responses and sketches a few landmarks of that territory. BMJ article. Download pdf (144kb).
  • The 5th Wave - a Discussion on the Future of Health.
    Key elements of this Scottish Council Foundation and HNS Scotland publication were based on ideas developed in David Reilly's work. See how the one to one encounter sits in the big picture of the next wave of public health. View article.
  • New Models of Healing. Reilly, D.
    PostScript Issue 28 July 2005 pages 1 and 4. A brief comment on the emergence of Integrated and Integrative care.
    Download pdf (396kb).
  • Falling through the holes in wholism. Reilly, D.
    contribution to debate sparked by excellent article: Bass C, May S. ABC of psychological medicine: Chronic multiple functional somatic symptoms, BMJ 2002; 325:
    323-6. BMJ article.
  • Psychiatry's Part in The Fragmented Art of Human Healing. Reilly D.
    The Royal College Of Psychiatrists Spirituality & Psychiatry Special Interest Group. Newsletter No. 9, August 2002 p4-8. Fascinating articles in general
    . (23k).
  • HUMAN HEALING: Perspectives, Alternatives and Controversies.
    Pilot of a Special Study Module for 3rd year undergraduate medical students at Glasgow University.Download pdf (449kb).
  • Consultations at GHH.
    A pilot qualitive study and commentary on some therpeutic consultations, from Zelda diBlasi and Jos Kliejnen. Download pdf (84kb).
  • Enablement - a preliminary report.
    From the project lead by Stewart Mercer with David Reilly and contributions from Graham Watt - evaluation of the quality of consultations and what determines it using a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods. Download pdf (93kb).
  • Empathy is important for enablement.
    Mercer, S. W, Watt, G. C M, Reilly, D. BMJ 2001; 322:865 First report from a pilot study of outpatients attending the Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital. Using Howie's Patient Enablement Scale demonstrated significant positive impact in a sample of 200 consultations before any medicines had been used. There was no instance of enablement in the absence of empathy. The full in-house report with qualitative research available in the article above this one. BMJ article.
  • The importance of empathy in the enablement of patients attending the Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital.
    Mercer SW, Reilly D, Watt GC. Br J Gen Pract 2002 Nov;52(484):901-5. View article.
  • Length of consultations. Time and stress are limiting holistic care in Scotland.
    Mercer SW, Hasegawa H, Reilly D, Bikker AP.BMJ 2002 Nov 23;325(7374). From a major survey of GPs views on the state of the art of holism. BMJ article.
Homoeopathy - A Review of the Evidence, Details of Training Courses,
Clinical Outcome Studies and GHHOS outcome scale.
  • The Foundations of Homoeopathy.
    Glasgow and Distant Learning Courses. Information On A Professional Postgraduate Introductory Course Open To All Statutory Registered Health Care Professionals. Includes Booking Form. More Information. Download pdf (31kb).
  • The Clinical Results of Homoeopathic Prescribing in Primary Care.
    Results in over 1600 cases. Includes proforma for the GHHOS - Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital Outcome Scale. Download pdf (462kb).
  • The Evidence for Homoeopathy (version 9.0).
    A discussion of the evidence profile for Homoeopathy. Including comments on the August 05 Lancet controversy. Updated September 2006 . Download pdf (555kb).
  • Comments prompted by the Lewith et al BMJ 2002 trial:
    1. When is useful improvement a waste of time? Double positive paradox of negative trials.
      BMJ 2002;325:41. In 'negative' RCTs did both groups work, or neither? BMJ article.
    2. A pilot design of diluted power. It might prove effectiveness, but it does not disprove efficacy.
      Reilly D. BMJ 2 March 2002 Responses for Lewith el at 324 (7336). A pilot design of diluted power. It might prove effectiveness, but it does not disprove efficacy. 2 March 2002. BMJ article.
Integrative Care Models - Results of the ‘Glasgow Model’ at Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital.
  • A Review of Inpatient Care Integrating Complementary and Orthodox Medicine at Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital.
    Suggests the cycles of distress and cost can often be usefully broken with a multidisciplinary holistic approach. Temporarily unavailable. File being updated July 2004.

The Academic Departments and its Activities  
  • A Draft Report on the Development and Academic Activities at Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital.
    Recent achievements and future plans, plus a listing of some recent publications Download pdf (118kb).
 

 

 

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