Practicing homeopathy with one’s life partner has its ups and downs. There are difficult aspects to negotiate, such as: Who will be on call? And who will oversee the running of the office? Likewise, there are certain pleasures involved with working as a team, including building a practice together, spelling each other during the early years of child rearing, sharing successes, and helping each other with difficult cases.
Periodically, Paul [Herscu, ND] and I will sit together with a patient, especially when one of us feels we are not getting the whole story or are missing key aspects to the case. Invariably, the fresh pair of eyes and different ways of seeing will help us get to a better remedy for the patient. It is generally true that two heads are better than one.
At other times, one of us will send the other a patient after having spent very little time with them. We do this when we perceive that a patient or family might prefer to develop a working relationship with the other provider. Our perception is naturally subjective, but usually we are right on the money. We have the liberty and freedom to do this in our intimate office, and we exercise it from time to time.
Sarah’s story: Chronic Lyme disease
Sometimes, I wonder why Paul sends me a particular patient, often a lovely person and a pleasure to treat. Such was the situation when Paul referred 19-year-old Sarah to me.
