What Does It Mean To Heal?: A Photo Essay

Healing involves touch and is one-to-one

Healing involves the hands to promote relaxation

There is always a component of Love in the Healing Process

Love involves Preparation in advance, and careful Planning

Spirit is always Present when Healing happens

 Healing often involves the interaction between water, Light Energy, and Love

The nurse tends to a boy's wound with care

Advanced forms of Healing include the use of sound and color to target the emotional body, the astral body, and the etheric plane

It is my sincerest hope that one day i.v.'s will be unnecessary 

And that the focus on money is less than it is with insurance companies today

Healing starts in the Home

And is pure Magic

Consider the miracle of how broken bones mend

It is our birthright to feel this wonderful always

with Love and Aloha,

Namaste,

Reiki Doc

This was a favorite song of The King of Pop. Just feel that awesome healing 'vibe' from the Great Satchmo. : )))   Enjoy:

Washing Hair versus Washing Minds in Corporate America

This week work took me out of the O.R. and into the corporate building. Everything was fine with what I was asked to do; I enjoyed the change of location. However, in working with this team, it struck me as odd that their life schedule is vastly different from mine: very predictable.

But I have to make the point, with something that was telepathic: while I walked through all the cubicles, with all the workers being silent, I felt deep compassion for their plight. I kept having images 'flash' through my awareness of cows being lined up in the stalls with the milking machine going full power. I felt the cow's rationalization--I get hay and I get shelter and someone cuts my hoofs for me and I get medical care--so what if I give them my milk? It's a fair exchange.

The 'walking desks' were the worst. They just had terrible energy that 'something is seriously wrong with this picture'. This is one of the BEST places for being 'worker supportive'! But in my mind,  the entire premise of corporate america is a lot like dairy farmers doing their 'thing'.

In the middle of this, I had the opportunity to meet an inspirational anesthesiologist. She leads a program to wash patients' hair in the hospital. Every big holiday, for example, next up is Mother's Day, she and a team of volunteers go wash and dry the patient's hair. 'People NEED to have their hair washed!' she confided. 'And you see it trickle down in the quality of care in these patients--if I, a physician, care enough to wash the hair of these patients, then others in the patient-centered care team follow suit.' It takes four volunteers to wash one patient's hair at the bedside. They have a system. And they dry the hair too.

Patients LOVE it!

There is no Reiki whatsoever involved in this doctor's 'mission'. She is straight Allopathic Medicine and this is coming right from her heart.

Isn't that WONDERFUL?

And back to Corporate America--as I walked around the many cubicles on my way to the bathroom, I saw how glorious individuality still can be seen. The 'I love my sports team!' cubicle. The 'I love my family' photos all across the desk, complete with children's drawings. And I saw hearts and angels, many of them, as a reminder of what is what in these workers' lives: their connection to Source.

As I walked, I gave Loving Compassion energy and the Platinum Ray everywhere.

They are so hungry for the Light! What beautiful spirits harnessed to 'harnesses'. One day soon God will free them--I sense this. Stay tuned and keep hoping for the Highest Good to Overcome all Darkness and for human bodies to be optimized for health and peace and prosperity overall!

Namaste,

Reiki Doc

Pill-Popping Peeps

Right this moment I am taking in a piece of Scharffenberger 'Bean to Bar' limited-edition San Juan De Cheni 78% dark chocolate with source origin cacao beans from Peru. It is 78%--love my dark--and 'Rainforest Certified'.  You have to order it online, or know someone that sells it to get a bar. Like I said yesterday, when I experience a 'speed bump' with Love Is The Solution For Everything, I reach for Dr. Chocolate! Those little endorphins get pumping and I can 'make it through' another day.

Yesterday was an exercise in forgiveness for me. All day long. The slate is clean between me, and my 'speed bump', on Spirit Side. But on Earth Side, as a Doctor, I might look like I am 'taking away the only thing that makes him him'. This is not the case. The way I see it, I am protecting him and everyone like him from legal liability from practicing medicine without a license.

'I have a headache' I remarked to a friend while eating dinner. I knew what it was. I hadn't had my coffee all day. It was past five o'clock. I needed caffeine. I simply asked which choice of tea on the menu had the highest content of caffeine.

Instead I got the expert with not one but two bottles of pills. I was encouraged to take one gi-normous white pill of L-carnitine, and SIX of something that looked like brown powder. He looked like he knew what he was doing. I knew he had done this before. I was like, 'Do I have to take all of them?' and he was like, 'Take it!'  So I did. She offered me the bottles to look at the labels. I didn't want to look. It was too late. I had taken the pills already. I would accept what came from it. I didn't feel like being 'doctor' with that headache. I was also hungry and I wanted to eat.

And it worked! Headache went away.

Let us flash back one week. My friend, who is a natural health advocate and is married to a doctor, an anesthesia colleague of mine--that is why I love her so!--complained about her 'red eyes'. I knew from her age and from my own personal experience and from the appearance of the eye that dry eye might be the problem. And that one of the most effective treatments for this is the application of a thin line of vaseline-type lubricant made for this purpose to be put inside the lower eyelid right before sleep. I brought her some just like the kind I use on my patients at work to protect their eyes during long surgery. (Normally we just tape them closed). I also think it is ironic because her husband owns a surgery center where they do lots of optholmology procedures every day, and yet she suffers with her own eyes...

See? I am guilty of the same thing. Curbside consult medicine! We have been this way, all of us, women in particular, when headaches or cramps occur. We tell our friends, and boom! Out comes the bottle of ibuprofen.  We love each other, we care, and we share what has helped us.

Well, what is the difference between this behavior and that of a clinician such as a Naturopath, an Acupuncturist, a Homeopath, and either a DO or an MD?

(This is what I do with my kids after a question that is a learning point---I hum the song from Jeopardy and wait for them to giggle. Humming that tune now....bing, it's done!)

It is SOAP.

Subjective
Objective
Assessment
Plan

Subjective: 'I have a headache'. This is treatment person's turn to ask patient, 'what makes it better? what makes it worse? where is it? how long have you had it? has this happened to you before? is it your time of the month? is it the worst headache of your life?' It is that last one in bold print that would mean 'Go Directly to ER' because there might be an intracranial bleed in there--and ibuprofen or god knows what would only make the bleeding worse and delay definitive care.

Objective:  Things you can see that confirm the 'Differential Diagnosis', the 'list of what could be causing the headache in this patient'. For example, papilledema--cupping and 'nicking'-- is observed by looking in the eye, and the optic nerve area is all swollen--is a sign of dangerously high blood pressure. When one sees that, treat the blood pressure and do not give ibuprofen.

Assessment: This is the overall picture of the disease process in each patient. What is the cause behind the lab values, physical examination signs, and the symptoms described by the patient. What is the likelihood of each? So we list them, in order of likelihood and/or severity, with the life-threatening ones at the top of the list, just like in ER triage--chest pain gets you to the head of the line, so to speak...

Plan: This is the treatment you plan to do about it. And the follow-up. How you are going to check and make sure that the treatment is working and the patient is feeling better.

In Chinese Medicine, Homeopathy, and Naturopathic Medicine, the Subjective is super long and super thorough. In Allopathic medicine we go heavy on the tests. My sister frequents a vitamin shop where someone that used to be a doctor in another country sells the 'supplements' and advises what to take next--without ANY of the SOAP that is described above.

Pills are pills. The ones that started off from nature and were extracted from that ARE allopathic medicine. The little frog--isn't he cute?--is to show how curare was taken from the frog to make poison darts to stun prey hit by arrows that have been dipped in it. Curare is 'natural', and will kill you. I use succinylcholine, which is similar to Curare, daily in my work. I have years of training to help someone breathe who is paralyzed. It kind of goes together. Why would I paralyze someone in surgery? So they can't move. Either the muscles in the abdomen or chest need to be relaxed so the surgeon can work, or any movement would be disastrous like in neurological surgery.  I reverse it at the end, the paralysis.

With a running i.v. or Sevoflurane by mask, I can render anyone unconscious in less than thirty seconds. 

Do I think about that much? Not really. I have been doing this for years and is what was taught to me.

The one who should think about the pills before you pop them, is you. If you are expert like the one that gave them to me for my headache, try to find out what serious 'danger questions' to ask before you treat. Is this the worst headache in your life? Let me call 911.  If you are the one who is taking the pills--look, even if your doctor or person you go to seek relief from your complaints is more psychic than me--look for a little SOAP from them. And also follow the money.

We are all friends. We are OHANA. We are healers in this together. We have many, many lifetimes as Kahuna and Shaman and even M.D. We KNOW what we are doing, on some level, and that is why 'it works'.

On an energetic level, when my seven pills were handed to me, non-verbally, with my aura interacting with his, I KNEW that I was going to be 'okay'.  In my heart of hearts, this guy is a Kahuna. He has that energy. I should know, I am Kahuna and I have this energy too. How am I Kahuna? Spirit trained me. Madame Pele. The Menehune. The fish. Kamehameha. My past life. And my school of medicine, my training, my patients, and disease that I have worked with professionally itself. It takes one to know one. That being said, Kahunas ask a lot of questions in the old country. They also ask for Spirit to help.

Can you agree to be more like Kahuna in your work? Ask the questions. Screen for basic serious medical problems before you treat. Ask for Spirit to guide you--look at Edgar Cayce and his magnificent work!

As long as we are doing pills, let's do them right. All of us together, hand in hand, heart in heart, Ohana taking care of one another. We stay out of trouble, and not anyone is going to suffer unnecessarily from lack of SOAP.

Namaste,

Reiki Doc

P.S. This is my latest 'discovery'--puremedy bio-ceuticals. 'Ancient remedies for modern people'. They are salves built by a first-nations elder to heal the gangrene on his foot. The original healing salve has been clinically tested to kill: MRSA, Staphylococcus, Candida albicans, Streptococcus, Klesbiella Pneumonia, E. Coli, Salmonella typhinimurium, Enterobacter Cloacea, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Burkholderia cepacia, Vegitative Aspirigillus Niger (fungus).  (Yes, I do know what all of these bugs are, and some of them I can diagnose by smelling them in a wound--I know them because I have seen them that much). So here is the link. And wash your hands often! That is healthy practice too!
www.puremedy.com They are about fourteen bottles a jar, and available at fine health food stores like Mother's Market near you.

Felder and Rousseau

Spirit guided me to the used book store. Let me describe it as 'acres of books'.  It was an interesting 'assignment' because of two things:

1. Spirit clearly guided me to 'Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes', second edition, by Richard M. Felder and Ronald W. Rousseau, part of the Wiley series in Chemical Engineering. I smiled, inwardly. I was a nerd! All the way through High School, I loved my chemistry enough to put up with a horrible teacher who said that chemistry was where the axe fell in college and separated the men from the boys! On having a perfect exam this one would take off points for grammar! It was devastating! I had this book my senior year in undergrad! It wasn't 'my' book, but I enjoyed looking through it and seeing how 'smart' with numbers I once had been.  Chapter One was especially endearing to me, 'What Chemical Engineers Sometimes Do for a Living'. Did you know Frank Capra of 'It's a Wonderful Life' was a chemical engineer? Cindy Crawford too. 
2. As I stood near the metaphysical section, I looked carefully for 'what category' my present 'work' with Doctors With Reiki would go? There wasn't even a 'Reiki Section'. Miscellanous Metaphysical would be not right...I was thinking...and then I glanced to the shelves of books OPPOSITE the metaphysical. Diseases by Alphabet. Many nurtition and other health books, some as overviews by big names such as 'Hah-vahd'. It was then the energy started to flow--a lot of it, right down through my head, and I realized,  neither one is right without the other! Someone needs to 'link' the two specialties-body and spirit! Once I realized this, the energy stopped. And at checkout I found a small pocket-sized copy of my favorite book ever, A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle! They had just bought it on Saturday. And I was able to buy it for me. <3

It is a good thing Spirit has spoken. Look at this recent assessment of medical care in the U.S.--http://shiftfrequency.com/michael-snyder-50-signs-that-the-u-s-health-care-system-is-a-gigantic-money-making-scam-that-is-about-to-collapse/

Greed and power is its undoing. After the system implodes, I hope we can work together to built our 'bridge' between the world of Spirit and the world of Medicine. We can go back to the days of the Kahuna once again.

Namaste,

Reiki Doc

The Yoga Class Flashback

As a healer, I am a 'high frequency' person who like a hummingbird works with joy and loves what I do. Like a hummingbird, I am always looking for a safe place 'to rest'. Hummingbirds don't perch for long, but when they do, they need a safe 'breather'.

My 'perch' is a place that offers Yoga, Kirtan, and Vegan food. For some reason, that 'works' for me, and I go. I don't go for the food, although it is delicious. I go for the energy in the food. And in the place. It is fantastic! I 'recharge' and I am on my way to healing others again.

Yesterday in Yoga class, I had a flashback that was not nice. It was an unpleasant 'mix' of my medicine training and practice with a movement in the class. It hit me like a ton of bricks.

It was the end of class. Our pose was with the legs up a wall and our backs on the floor. Teacher came to each of us and gave us a neck rub.

When he gently turned my head to the left, and exposed the neck, I was overcome with a wave of guilt and horror. As a cardiac anesthesiologist, this is the movement I do to position the patient for insertion of the big lines in the neck. They are done awake. I use a big needle, and a lot of lidocaine. Nobody likes it. But their hearts are so sick, I cannot 'put them to sleep' safely without knowing their CVP, Cardiac Output, Mixed Venous Oxygen, and Pulmonary Artery (PA) pressures. It's just not possible to 'guess' when there is so little room for error.

When teacher pressed in the front of my sternocleidomastoid, at the level of my larynx, I also wanted to tell him that the bone he felt deeper in the neck was Chassaignac's Tubercle, a landmark for an Interscalene Block.

Instead, I let out a contented sigh, and released my 'doctorness' and 'doctor memories' to Gaia.

I want you to know that what I do affects me on a very deep level. I think it does for most of us in the healing professions.

I hope you have room in your heart, like my yoga teacher, to know that one day, all of us in the hospital will need deep healing for our spirit too. Allopathic medicine causes harm in both directions, to healer and patient, in its own way. Save your judgement for when you have walked in our shoes.

Namaste,

Reiki Doc

Just Right?

This week I realized at the doctor's office that all of the main docs rotating there demonstrate a spectrum of the healthcare field.

Chronic sinusitis is one of the 'failed' areas of traditional medicine, just like chronic back pain. Here are their takes on the treatment of one of my kids, who has been suffering with a sinus infection since early November.

"Papa Bear": This is the owner of the place. A very traditional allopathic physician. He took an x-ray of the sinuses, prescribed steroids, antibiotics, expectorant, and said to come back in ten days. The only 'catch' is that all of the medications were on formulary for the facilities' 'pharmacy', a closet in the back. At the end, he asks, 'what is your co-pay?' and offers to charge me that only on each of the meds. I have gone along with this in the past, out of convenience's sake. But I know that all the meds are generic and much cheaper than my co-pay. Last time, I asked, after he said, 'for a savings of sixty dollars!', and since I had to go to our pharmacy anyway for one of the meds I was given, 'would you mind if we just went to the pharmacy for all of them?'. He wrote the scripts. I took them to my pharmacy. And two of the three meds were less than half the price of a single copay.

"Mama Bear": A caring physician with a therapeutic sense of humor, he wrote for Ciprodex ear drops instead of antibiotics the visit before last. That is non-formulary, non-generic, and set me back one hundred and sixty dollars  due to my generic-only insurance policy (cipro is bad for growth plates when taken as a pill in children). It cured the ear infection, but not the underlying sinusitis behind it. This one is who wrote a different antibiotic for free over the phone when there was a reaction (rash) to one written by his partner, 'Baby Bear'.

"Baby Bear": the most human of them all. Very into New Age medicine. Has given a number of excellent resources for this blog. He had given a referral to a homeopath, but due to scheduling I never contacted them. Did not want to expose this patient to 'more x-rays', and had been treating sinus infections since November. The critical part missing in the therapy plan was the steroid

There is no 'Goldilocks' in this story. The answer is in the middle of all of these. They clearly represent the types of people that are out there:

Papa Bear:  taking care of number one while taking care of your loved one. Likely to go away after Ascension due to self-serving behavior. Does have skills that work, though.

Mama Bear: a good overall blend of Papa Bear and Baby Bear, has a somewhat less guarded heart in taking care of you, more compassionate.

Baby Bear: Puts the most of himself into his work--heart and soul. Is excited about the prospect of new medicine. Is the only one I trust enough to let know I am Reiki Doc. Perhaps if I had been more open about the two week's of work missed in taking care of my sick kid, about how stressed I am that every day post-call has been spent taking care of same kid, and how I referred myself out to my old allergist because I felt it wasn't getting resolution on the sinuses, we could have come up with a better plan together. I think objective endpoints to reassess would be a good way to go when working with a doc like Baby Bear.

Again, sinusitis is a tough one to treat. The problem is that the mucus membranes lining the sinuses don't absorb very much antibiotic, and antimicrobial therapy should last a minimum of three weeks' to allow for adequate penetration. Saline nasal rinses with a Neti pot are helpful, but only Dr. Neil has the right tonicity in the packet and the water fill line. Even with that, there is risk of terrible cross contamination from one use to the next, and for sure each family member should have their own Neti Pot. (I find soaking in one part vinegar to three parts water for an hour, or hydrogen peroxide rinse and dry, to adequately address this concern).

I thought we might discuss these three different 'approaches' to medicine today, so that you can see 'where your physician' is coming from. There is room for improvement in each type, that is why it is called the Practice of Medicine!  Who is going to be the first to incorporate Light Therapy and Sound Healing into their practices? The Baby Bears of the world, no doubt! And who can benefit from Reiki Training and opening up their intuitive ability in medicine? ALL THREE!

Namaste,

Reiki Doc

Reiki, Science and Naturopathic Physicians

I had a comment on one of my posts: Reiki Doc? Aren't you supposed to believe in the Scientific Method?

I also had a request to post on Facebook a petition for Naturopathic Doctors to be titled as Physicians.

I have spent the last three days in very deep thought. Let me condense my findings:

• I felt a twinge of the challenge a guest speaker who was an oncologist 'soapboxed' about for an hour in this speech on Alternative and Complimentary Medicine. I felt like letting someone else have the title of 'physician' might in some way 'lessen' my hard work and life dedication to allopathic medicine. It 'hurt'.
• For those of you who are not in the medical field, the fields of medical practice, in descending order of rigorousness and difficulty getting 'in' and 'finishing training' are: 

1. D.V.M.--veterinary medicine. Super-impacted programs, super competitive. From what I understand, must start volunteer work at fifteen with single-minded goal to get admitted.
2. M.D. --this is allopathic medicine--4 years undergrad, 4 years med school, and at least internship plus three years residency. Competitive, as in 30 applicants for spot in medical school. 
3. D.O. --osteopathic medicine--same as above, but less standard allopathic academic material in a way because chiropractic medicine is also taught in the four years of training.
4. D.D.S. --Dentistry. Very hard to get in. Very tough boards to pass.
5. Pharm D--Pharmacist. Much licensing, much training, with residency in hospital optional, but mandatory for work in a hospital setting
6. D.P.M. --Podiatrist. They work with me at my hospital. Nice docs, very calm. Formal residency training in O.R. is mandatory.
7. D.C. --Chiropractor. Will have to look up the curriculum, but in talking with one of my chiropractors in the past, it seemed 'close' to the way medicine is taught, but parallel. Not sure if stays in hospital overnight with sick patients. Probably not.
8. N.D. --similar bachelors' degree prerequisite and subjects. Rigorousness varies across different programs. Very few residencies. I do know I have always had a Kneipp product available at my home since freshman year college--I was just drawn to it, and wondered why or how I was.
9. Acupuncture--I was treated at a school in San Diego. Very traditional, with good training, but no staying up all night in the hospital!
10. Physical Therapy, Nutrition, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, Physician Assistant, CRNA, Nurse Midwife--all require some training after college degree, all are in 'conventional medicine'. Are in hospital at all hours, but with shorter shifts, and breaks, which M.D.'s do not get in the hospital.
11. RN/LVN/NA--can go from a two year program at a community college all the way to a Doctorate in Nursing. Is competitive, and in 'Conventional Medicine'. Nurses that do the toughest, highest 'acuity' patients are (in no particular order) NICU, SICU, CCU, MICU, PACU, OR, PICU, and Burn ICU. There is Neurosurgery ICU, too.
12. Xray techs, CT scan techs, MRI techs, Cath Lab techs, Nuclear Medicine techs, ...many many more I might have forgot. If there is a specialty, there is a tech, even and Ortho Cast technician...usually in a technical program, with a licensing exam.
13. Not sure exactly where midwives and doulas fit in as far as training and licensing is concerned. Same for Homeopathy, Ayuveda, and other Healing arts.
14. Edgar Cayce-type healers. People who work with Spirit and the Higher Realms for healing, and whose technical accuracy are only now being discovered behind the 'cures'. They just 'do it' and are pioneers.

• One of the problems in the past was that medicine was 'unregulated': it was an apprenticeship, very regional style of care, and there were many lives lost. Think of the surgeons, in suits, who went from the anatomy lab to doing pelvic exams on laboring women without washing their hands! More women died of puerpural fever IN the hospital than at home with a midwife.
• I 'get' that we are going to have to 'forge something in the healing arts together'--and give up our 'turf' in a sense. Was acupuncture discovered by randomized, double-blind studies? No way! Even now we are just beginning to understand how acupuncture 'works', as measurements before this time were not physically possible.
• I put my Reiki Doc 'woo woo' skills into this category--not yet measurable physical phenomena. Masaru Emoto has done seminal work with water crystals in this regard--'science of woo woo'
• Naturopathic Medicine is like the 'primary care' of all the Alternative Medicine Arts--they know a little about all of them, and about conventional medicine too, but no 'staying up all night with sick patients' like I do. (I did last night! Woken up at two a.m. and six-twenty a.m. for epidurals)
• Patients want to heal. Patients want to feel better. Love is an essential component in this healing art.
• On Science: I am a Chemical Engineer by training. The physical sciences are robust. The biological sciences--no so accurate. They are almost to the realm of Product Development Science in Marketing Research and Consumer Testing--'give me the answer you want and I will tell you the question you have to ask'. And the statisticians will tell you how many people to ask (how powerful) to show a difference. There is a trend called 'Meta Analysis' where you take the results of different tests, blend the papers together, and analyze them overall for 'super trends'. If you ask me, there is just too much error in the Meta Analysis method. But it is 'standard of care' in 'peer reviewed evidence based medicine' on which our government-backed 'protocols' are being built.
• Louis Pasteur was once on a train, praying the Rosary. His seat mate teased him, and challenged him, citing the superiority of science over religion, and taunted him why he still had to pray on those beads. Pasteur, humbled and unrecognized by the seat mate, asked, 'Tell me more of this Science that you discuss. If this is true, I want no more part of this Science!' and broke down in tears. Pasteur had a special devotion to Mother Mary his entire life, and dedicated his life-saving work to Her...
• All people in Medicine pray. Sometimes 'formally', sometimes even if not religious, a heart-felt, 'help me God with this horrible situation--clinically--help me to do what is right and do it well'.

Therefore I am saying, Science and Medicine are One. Healing and Religious Faith are ONE. 

When it comes right down to it, illness is an energetic imbalance that responds to Love, Compassion, Concern, and Caring.

It is from this foundation that the future of all Healing shall be built. When 'Quackery'--the misuse of the healing paradigm for one's own personal benefit by the twisting of science into 'flim flam' is no longer possible--through Ascension and the ability to intuitively and instantly KNOW someone's intent by reading their aura; when Quackery is no longer possible, things are going to more very fast forward from where we are today. Hold on to your hats! This is going to be a MIRACLE!*

Namaste,

Reiki Doc

* Note: that in the fifth dimension, physical illness no longer can exist. We will need some 'transition', but the end point is health and youth and vigor!