wellness - let's start at the beginning
January 18th 2008 01:47
What are Wellness Outcomes ?
This describes the health aspirations of the modern person: That is - We don't just want to be treated for an illness :We wants to get better. We are'nt just happy with growing old gracefully : we want to stay young and vibrant for as long as possible. The modern woman doesn't just want to have a healthy baby while she's still in her twenties. She wants to have a rich, rewarding and fulfilling career and a lively, interesting youth, then wants to have a baby in her thirties or forties or even fifties. She wants THAT baby to be happy and healthy.
You see, the tenet of the modern health care worker is to keep up with all these aspirations.
It means that health care workers have to develop new specialties, break new ground in attitude and direction. The new local GP is actually a collection of people these days - doctor, physio, natural therapist and chiropractic as the HCF ad could well say.
And the actual practitioners themselves need to change also. That's why I studied to become a naturopath, homoeopath, nutritionist and herbalist.
Why nutrition and herbal medicine? Well, our job as a pharmacist has always been to support the work of our doctors and consider ourselves part of the health care team. With wellness outcomes now being the focus of 60% of the population (according to a recent survey) there is an additional "team" job to do as part of this support structure. That job is to support, or complement "treatment" aspects of the patient's needs to the next step they want to arrive at.
That's why I wanted to add to my pharmacist skills. I wanted to be where my clients were and hopefully take them to where they want to go. You see, it is my belief that sound nutrition is the fundamental requirement of good health, and therefore is essential to wellness outcomes.
To achieve wellness means to recover FULLY from a chronic disease if possible. More and more people are finding that to be possible.
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Comment by katyzzz
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Love the bird, dream on and raise everyone's already unrealistic expectations, too high, they are in for a huge shock, do people want to be well? No, not generally until it's too late, and they've begun the Pop the pill merry go round.
No amount of placating talk will work. I feel sure your intentions are sound. I am a realist, people are so difficult to move, worse than the environment you know, everyone thinks they are an expert on that.
Preaching to the converted? you should do well there, a bit like the environment.
My words too harsh, probably, but it will take much more than providing some basic information, unfortunately.
Sincerely in apposition if not opposition, the health genius, that's me.
But I realise I mix not with the esoteric few but the majority view, that's the sad thing about blogging.
Comment by Louie
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I would be happy to put his posts on your site no drama's
Dont want to tread on your toes bla de bla, just trying to help the oldman get into the 21st century a bit more, and he has a wealth of information
Let me know and ill delete this site and move the posts to yours.
cheers
Louie
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Comment by katyzzz
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Blogging is a free outlet for anyone and I wasn't really serious when I suggested you'd infringed my territory. I wish your dad well, he's probably a lot more patient and tolerant than I am.
Get him to try some computer art to test his skills and his patience.
Explore this big bad wonderful world in any way you or your dad please, I don't mind being muscled out (joke, ha ha)
Your dad sounds a very interesting person.
I'm sure he has a lot to offer the world with his knowledge and alternative ways of thinking.
I just don't agree that "natural" health products do the trick and they can be as damaging as prescription medicine and blah blah blah as I said on my other post.
I'm opting out of too much involvement, to me, talk is always cheap, you can talk about things for ever and in fact do nothing.
I am not suggesting you or your father come into this category but I wish to opt out of things I am not wanting to pursue any further, I already spend far too much time blogging but while I perceive it serving some purpose and I have the time and can do so time effectively I shall continue to do it.
Good luck, you're already doing better than I in terms of votes, not that I see that as the ultimate assessment.
Continue to enjoy yourself.
Good luck and great respect to your dad.
katyzzz
Comment by Louie
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For what its worth my Dad is also a Pharmacist and wholeheartedly beleives in Balance between the sciences. He is the first to send someone to a Doctor when modern science needs to be involved.
louie
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