[CitizensTruth] Eighty to ninety percent of all Americans who seek medical care have symptoms caused by repressed inner conflicts

[Edward Rynearson]

Time To Listen

How I Learned What Really Matters

Since eighty to ninety percent of all Americans who seek medical care have symptoms caused by repressed inner conflicts and not by a disease process (ask your primary care physician if he agrees with this), our high powered health care system designed to diagnose and treat serious life threatening illnesses has become a colossal failure bankrupting the health care system of our country.

If one's ten year old daughter says she has a severe stomach ache and must stay out of school, and if we know she has many friends and is doing well in school, but is anxious about her grandma's recently diagnosed cancer and the fact that an infant brother just joined the family, then we feel compassion for her… we suffer with her.  We don't rush her to the doctor because we have important information that gives us insight into the cause of her pain.

Our current medical system has so limited the time available for the primary care physicians to obtain this crucial information to obtain this insight into the repressed cause of the symptom that the disease oriented approach that fits the vast minority of patients, causes not only an unsustainable cost but also potential harm and even death to the majority.

It doesn't have to be that way says Mayo trained psychiatrist, Dr. Robert R. Rynearson who founded the Psychiatry Department at the Scott and White Clinic in Temple, Texas.  He spent thirty-four years listening to people.  The chances, he says, of a patient getting appropriate treatment in the current medical system are slim. Your doctor doesn't have time to listen to you to determine if you are one of the eighty to ninety percent of patients whose symptoms are caused by inner emotional conflicts or if you are one of the ten to twenty percent of patients whose symptoms require medication, complicated testing, and referral to a specialist.

Dr. Rynearson has developed a short cut for the eighty to ninety percent group to get significant help.    Once a person sees the inner conflict (insight) the symptoms are no longer necessary.

One woman presented with severe chronic abdominal pain.  She had spent her life savings seeing specialists and had been operated on seven times.  When Dr. Rynearson first saw her, he asked about her pain.  She said it had been present for eleven years.  He asked what happened eleven years ago.   She burst into tears and said that her only son had committed suicide eleven years ago by shooting himself in the abdomen with a ten gauge shot gun. She hadn't discussed this with any of the doctors she had seen previously. When she dealt with this unresolved inner conflict she went home pain free.

Dr. Rynearson has developed techniques to help his patients gain insight.    The late Ian Alger's pioneering work with television techniques which he called Profile Self Confrontation combined with  Dr. Rynearson's work on developing Emotional Status Examination system have quickly revealed the patient's underlying conflict.

In his memoir, TIME TO LISTEN, Dr. Rynearson illustrates the Profile Self Confrontation, Emotional Status Examination,  and other methods used to help his patients quickly obtain insight without subjecting them to expensive and sometimes harmful procedures.  If doctors prescribe medication, tests, and referrals to only the ten to twenty percent of their patients who need it, our medical system would not be bankrupt.  Every headache does not require an MRI.

Wordpress
http://robertrynearson.wordpress.com/

YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FgZ2J_iPXM

Amazon (Kindle Edition)
http://www.amazon.com/Time-To-Listen-ebook/dp/B0029U15EY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1242306553&sr=1-1

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