The death of a patient

I’ve just found out that one of my patients died, which I was a bit shocked about. He was booked in for an acupuncture session with me this evening at 8pm. When he didn’t show, I phoned his mobile, left a message, and then phoned his home number. His wife answered and I expected her to tell me that he was on his way to the session. But when I told her who I was, she said that he had died of a massive heart attack on Easter Sunday.

(Because the poor chap has died, I can now write much more openly about this, since patient confidentiality no longer restricts me. However, I have not used the patient’s real name.)

Rest in peace, Andrew. My thoughts are with your family.

The spooky thing is that I think this explains my own ‘illness’ which started on Easter Sunday (see my blog entry of March 24). I somehow knew that it was related to Heart, and that it was an ‘energy’ thing, rather than a normal illness. But I had assumed that the ‘pathogen’ was some Heart related negative energy that I had picked up from two other patients that I had been treating. Now, knowing that Andrew was having a massive heart attack on that same day and that he died, this now makes sense of the way that I was feeling.

He was only 43, and had been coming to me for just a few weeks, for help to overcome ‘pleurisy’. His symptoms greatly reduced over the first few sessions, which he was impressed with. As a Chinese Medicine practitioner, it was clear to me that he had a constitutional weakness in his heart, and also that the symptoms he was experiencing were related to his heart. I described this to him by saying that the pain was due to his heart or pericardium complaining, and that the pain was being expelled along the San jiao channel, which was where he was experiencing the symptoms. Even biomedicine recognises that this type of pain is related to a heart attack. But he told me that he had been seeing specialists and that they had done every test on his heart that they could and had found nothing wrong.

We had a good rapport. I seem to recall that only the last time I saw him, I had told him that he had a weakness in his heart and that he needed to take care of his heart. We discussed this a bit. He repeated that they had done all the tests they could (and the terms he used to describe the tests, would have made them sound impressive to the man in the street).

People don’t realize how primitive biomedicine is. Because they use high tech machines and have a world-wide army of scientists working to support their craft, it is assumed that their knowledge is authoritative. But anyone who practices one of the long-established healing arts, clearly understands all the shortcomings in biomedicine. Chinese Medicine has been developing for around ten thousand years and uses only the powers of the practitioner communicating with the innate healing ability that's within us all. It is far more advanced than biomedicine is currently even capable of comprehending (apparently). But biomedicine is backed by a phenomenal propaganda machine and I do understand how people are seduced by that machine. I was myself, to some extent, up until about fifteen years ago.

 

3 April 2008