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Vision at work: How do we, the physicians of tomorrow, want to practise medicine?
Workshop Presentations / European Journal of Integrative Medicine 4S (2012) 202–211
diabetes when the protocol is integrated with herbal treatment. Wide room is left for discussion. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eujim.2012.07.952 WP-003 Vision at work: How do we, the physicians of tomorrow, want to practise medicine? Durand Maria, Dobos Aniko Medizin und Menschlichkeit, Munich, Germany The workshop ‘Vision at work: How do we, the physicians of tomorrow, want to practise medicine?’ will be conducted by members of four student associations from Germany and Austria (Medizin und Menschlichkeit, Medizin mit Herz und Hand, Portal für Integrative Medizin and EinHerz). The group consists mainly of medical students and young doctors and we intend to: (1) render medicine more human and focussed on the human being, (2) enrich the existing biomechanical paradigm with new creative ideas and other concepts of health and disease (e.g., integrative medicine), (3) develop awareness of the shortcomings in the educational system as well as in the present medical practice, (4) create a European network of like-minded students, (5) share the great experience of discovering integrative medicine and of meeting inspiring teachers/doctors, (6) make use of innovative communication and new teaching techniques and (7) practise a medicine carried by compassion, empathy and true encounters. Together, we will explore how to implement those ideas in our working environment, our academic research and our everyday life. Additionally, we want to gather further insights for potential changes in the health-care system and elaborate a visionary concept for a hospital that actively cultivates human values. The workshop will begin with a short presentation of the groups’ common vision and of our accomplishments. Afterwards all participants will take part in interactive work in small groups containing discussion rounds, idea café and other innovative teaching techniques. A presentation of the results in the plenum will conclude the workshop. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eujim.2012.07.953 THE SCHOOL OF ACUPUNCTURE OF FLORENCE BETWEEN TRADITION AND INNOVATION WP-004 New possible acquisitions in ophthalmology with nonconventional medicine Vanzini Marzio, Gori Gilberto, Caretto Laura Our research in ophthalmology has been carried out since some years following the principles of the most recent therapies of acupuncture, laser, Malitang health hammer, homeopathy and diet. Only from the collaboration between the specialists of these medical disciplines and with the use of the most sophisticated ophthalmologic diagnostic tools did we embark upon a
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useful path to improve the quality of life of patients suffering from various visual diseases. Although we are aware that we are only at the beginning of very interesting developments regarding these studies, we can now say that there are reasonable ways to improve the prognosis of diseases that are now considered without therapy. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the usefulness and effectiveness of the Malitang hammer used on acupuncture points to treat severe visual disorders for which conventional medical treatment is based on the simple damage limitation. Visual disorders are a very common condition and these diseases are rapidly increasing in Western populations because of incorrect dietary factors and existential factors. The use of dietetics, Chinese gymnastics, energy Qi gong and Malitang hammer allows an improvement of many serious diseases. Some of the most clinically evident case reports will be introduced: fifty cases of low-tension glaucoma with ophthalmic haemodynamic flow normalisation as well as a case report of an acquired cortical hypovision with significant vision improvement. The patients were studied using tonometry, visual field testing, fundus and the perceived quality of vision and the results are very encouraging. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eujim.2012.07.954 WP-005 Chinese medicine: a model integrated with cultural and medical traditions of the past Cracolici Franco Scuola di Agopuntura Tradizionale della Città di Firenze, Florence, Italy Background: The objective of this report is to summarise the history of Chinese medicine in relation to other cultural and scientific models that have interacted with it. Although we find that there are no barriers between different cultures, there is simply no perception of a global communication. This report intends to show their interrelationship and the complementarity of the therapeutic art. Aim: This work aims to illustrate several points of view similar to those cited in classical texts. The research method is correct and constructive–among all sources of literature analysed by drawing from original documents and based on the material produced by further research. The report includes an extensive study about methods of treatment, the perspective of the reproductive, lymphatic and osteoarticular in the light of numerous connections between Hippocrates and the most eminent scholars and writers from Oriental texts. The results suggest the need to integrate different thoughts already related through numerous roads, the main one being the Silk Road. Conclusions: We want the comparison between different civilisations to explain how in the past a dominant and hegemonic culture, which eclipsed apparently less developed peoples, did not exist; however, by a better and deeper study of classics we also wish to understand how the West and the East, Ethiopia or Thailand, Europe and Mexico were also rich, with
diabetes when the protocol is integrated with herbal treatment. Wide room is left for discussion. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eujim.2012.07.952 WP-003 Vision at work: How do we, the physicians of tomorrow, want to practise medicine? Durand Maria, Dobos Aniko Medizin und Menschlichkeit, Munich, Germany The workshop ‘Vision at work: How do we, the physicians of tomorrow, want to practise medicine?’ will be conducted by members of four student associations from Germany and Austria (Medizin und Menschlichkeit, Medizin mit Herz und Hand, Portal für Integrative Medizin and EinHerz). The group consists mainly of medical students and young doctors and we intend to: (1) render medicine more human and focussed on the human being, (2) enrich the existing biomechanical paradigm with new creative ideas and other concepts of health and disease (e.g., integrative medicine), (3) develop awareness of the shortcomings in the educational system as well as in the present medical practice, (4) create a European network of like-minded students, (5) share the great experience of discovering integrative medicine and of meeting inspiring teachers/doctors, (6) make use of innovative communication and new teaching techniques and (7) practise a medicine carried by compassion, empathy and true encounters. Together, we will explore how to implement those ideas in our working environment, our academic research and our everyday life. Additionally, we want to gather further insights for potential changes in the health-care system and elaborate a visionary concept for a hospital that actively cultivates human values. The workshop will begin with a short presentation of the groups’ common vision and of our accomplishments. Afterwards all participants will take part in interactive work in small groups containing discussion rounds, idea café and other innovative teaching techniques. A presentation of the results in the plenum will conclude the workshop. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eujim.2012.07.953 THE SCHOOL OF ACUPUNCTURE OF FLORENCE BETWEEN TRADITION AND INNOVATION WP-004 New possible acquisitions in ophthalmology with nonconventional medicine Vanzini Marzio, Gori Gilberto, Caretto Laura Our research in ophthalmology has been carried out since some years following the principles of the most recent therapies of acupuncture, laser, Malitang health hammer, homeopathy and diet. Only from the collaboration between the specialists of these medical disciplines and with the use of the most sophisticated ophthalmologic diagnostic tools did we embark upon a
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useful path to improve the quality of life of patients suffering from various visual diseases. Although we are aware that we are only at the beginning of very interesting developments regarding these studies, we can now say that there are reasonable ways to improve the prognosis of diseases that are now considered without therapy. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the usefulness and effectiveness of the Malitang hammer used on acupuncture points to treat severe visual disorders for which conventional medical treatment is based on the simple damage limitation. Visual disorders are a very common condition and these diseases are rapidly increasing in Western populations because of incorrect dietary factors and existential factors. The use of dietetics, Chinese gymnastics, energy Qi gong and Malitang hammer allows an improvement of many serious diseases. Some of the most clinically evident case reports will be introduced: fifty cases of low-tension glaucoma with ophthalmic haemodynamic flow normalisation as well as a case report of an acquired cortical hypovision with significant vision improvement. The patients were studied using tonometry, visual field testing, fundus and the perceived quality of vision and the results are very encouraging. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eujim.2012.07.954 WP-005 Chinese medicine: a model integrated with cultural and medical traditions of the past Cracolici Franco Scuola di Agopuntura Tradizionale della Città di Firenze, Florence, Italy Background: The objective of this report is to summarise the history of Chinese medicine in relation to other cultural and scientific models that have interacted with it. Although we find that there are no barriers between different cultures, there is simply no perception of a global communication. This report intends to show their interrelationship and the complementarity of the therapeutic art. Aim: This work aims to illustrate several points of view similar to those cited in classical texts. The research method is correct and constructive–among all sources of literature analysed by drawing from original documents and based on the material produced by further research. The report includes an extensive study about methods of treatment, the perspective of the reproductive, lymphatic and osteoarticular in the light of numerous connections between Hippocrates and the most eminent scholars and writers from Oriental texts. The results suggest the need to integrate different thoughts already related through numerous roads, the main one being the Silk Road. Conclusions: We want the comparison between different civilisations to explain how in the past a dominant and hegemonic culture, which eclipsed apparently less developed peoples, did not exist; however, by a better and deeper study of classics we also wish to understand how the West and the East, Ethiopia or Thailand, Europe and Mexico were also rich, with