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I studied modern medicine (MM) at the Free University of Amsterdam [Vrije Universiteit (VU)] in the Netherlands, during the early 1980s. Throughout Western Europe, medical students are exposed to homoeopathy. We were presented this subject during our 4th year, however, the majority of my fellow students, as well as me, ignored homoeopathy. To put it mildly, most of us were blinded by the "wonders" of MM.
After qualifying from the VU Amsterdam, I departed for the United Kingdom, working and studying to obtain higher qualifications in Internal Medicine. I passed the Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians [MRCP (UK)] diploma examination during 1992. On my return to South Africa in 1993, I was compelled by the then Medical and Dental Council of South Africa to work under supervision for one year in a state hospital, as a prerequisite to obtain full registration as a medical practitioner. On arrival at that hospital, I was appointed, ironically, as a consultant physician due to my qualifications and due to the failure to attract other registered specialist physicians.
During my training in the UK I was not blind to the failures of MM especially in chronic diseases. Patients suffered immensely, whether from the ravages of diabetes mellitus or ulcerative colitis etc., etc. While working as a consultant physician in South Africa , I decided to treat selected patients suffering from various acute and/or chronic diseases with homoeopathic medicines. Those patients arrived at the end of the road as far as MM treatments were concerned and were as is often the case, told to "live" with their complaints or diseases.
I started to add homoeopathic treatment to the conventional treatment of the patients under my care in hospital. Please note that I added the homoeopathic treatment to the patients' conventional treatments. I did not stop, or interfere with their conventional treatment without due consideration of the global state of health of the patient. The results of doing this were stunning to the patients as well as my immediate medical staff.
At the end of November 1994, I resigned from this post to set up my own private practice in Cape Town. I deliberately chose a general practice format which allowed me to treat homoeopathically, patients suffering from diseases spanning the entire range of medicine which allowed me consequently to verify and document all the results thus obtained.
© Dr HJD Jeggels 2006 |
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