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By Dr Bernard Brom
Ill-health
is the voice of health
asking for help
A new way of seeing ill-health — not as a problem but as a doorway to understanding the language of the body-mind
- MBChB, University of Cape Town, 1965
- Founder and Former Chairman, SA Society of Integrative Medicine
- Author of Healthy Medicine and The Heart of Healing
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Integrative medicine and general practice
Integrative medicine is not alternative or complementary medicine: it grew inside conventional practice, and the BMJ once suggested it might restore 'the soul' to medicine. Bernard sets out the SASIM definition and argues that the middle ground it occupies — dysfunction before pathology, and bio-energy alongside biochemistry — belongs to the family practitioner more than to anyone else.
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The bridge
Where medicine, philosophy, and lived experience converge
I qualified in 1965, and by 1971 I had walked out of hospital medicine altogether and went travelling for six years. When I came home I returned with a single question: is it possible to treat ill-health without drugs? Everything since has been my quest to understand health and healing.
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The full journeyHealing is not fixing what is broken, but responding to the call for help
There is a worldwide movement towards a new kind of medicine, a medicine which improves health, focusing on the underlying dysfunction in the body, rather than just treating the disease. The body has an innate drive to heal and repair; the work is to remove the blocks in its way and trust the body’s innate intelligence.
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