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Given the state of the world politics in play, our profession comes way down on the list of important issues for governments to deal with. However, the more pressing situations elsewhere, will make it easier for interested parties to push through damaging restrictions via laws and mandates, and we should be prepared for them.

That said,  within the profession we can see the effects of 40 years of wrong teachings finally bringing us to the position where our medical speciality, as formulated by Samuel Hahnemann, is no longer being taught or promoted under the name of Homoeopathy. The margin of zero return on training has finally been reached. The adverse publicity, the lack of adequately trained teachers, the promotion of false ideas has managed to destroy the simple practice of medicine as outlined in the Organon and other original materials.

So what to do about it is the question.

Personally, I have removed myself from associations and organizations that allow or promote wrong teaching or ideas. I will no longer teach in or for a college so as to not be seen to endorse them even tacitly. For a brief while, I was internally torn regarding promoting homoeopathy via international gatherings of homoeopaths like LIGA, etc, but on reading the minutes of the past 5 conferences and the detailed notes on the presentations, I have concluded that it the professional face of what is wrong with our therapy today. These gatherings are the epitome of the very people that have destroyed our profession. My word will have less impact on them than Samuel Hahnemanns, and they have ignored him already.

The time has come for the remaining few homoeopaths who adhere to the principles of our practice to have a voice. We are working on it.

Watch this space.

I remember this statement from my father as a child. He would say it between, as he put it, “shooting at people to stop them hurting others or shooting at them to stop them hurting themselves”. My father hated violence and stupidity.  He hated the fact that people would not just get along…  Incongruous really, given that he had some pretty strong views on race and religion, and yet despite that, he REALLY did walk the walk in terms of equality. As long as no one pushed their views on another, he would stand alongside an individual for their right to exist and be a human in this world on their own terms. He would not cross the boundary of imposing himself on others and he expected the same of them. My dad was a one of a kind. An individual with his own mind and thoughts how things should be, and yet an infinite acceptance of differences.

Vladimir and I received an email today, actually a posting on our FACEBOOK account. It was an Irate woman from Columbia I believe:

“Hi I ´m Marce Vamp.  I ´m an homoepath in colombia .I download  your free
trial of the repertorization program to try it … BIG Mistake!, I have a
Pop Up Window and I could not work, or repertorize any patient with this
computer …. I´m so pissed of with you!  And can´t erase  the Synopsis
carpet and i can´t eliminate it neither. As marketing strategy I found it
very  poor, and dissapointing… after this experience I won´t buy you
producto what so ever …..I even couldn´t try it easily because of
the stupid pop up window…. You should warn peolple about it… It`s not
an homeopathic behavior. I will go With Radar or Minotti even if It`s more
expensive ……

I regret open your web page ..

Marcela”

Firstly, I am very sorry she experienced some difficulty with the program. It was a windows/JAVA/security issue we let slip for a short while which allowed the nag screen of the demo to continue working after the program closed. There you would be minding your own business and this screen would appear and sit there for 15 seconds while you were scratching your head, and then repeat every 5 minutes thereafter.

I understand the irritation of this happening. I was irritated when it happened to me. We fixed it and replaced the install program.

What I find hard to understand is the reaction this had on the unfortunate user. Im sure if her command of the English language had been better, a lot more vitriol and outpouring of curses would have been forthcoming. I actually would have liked to have seen that…

Logically, as business owners, Vladimir and myself would not have deliberately done anything to cause aforesaid irritation to any prospective customer. The issue, according to her first posting, “destroyed” her computer. It didnt.

We are sorry Marcela, we didnt mean it to happen. Oops. Had you been nicer about it, we have been known to offer compensation in terms of discounts etc for the inconvenience suffered. We have thousands of OpenRep/SYNOPSIS programs out there in everyday use. We are not a small operator in the Homoeopathic arena and when we mess up we make good.

However, in this case, our sincere apologies are all you will receive. We wrote you on how to rectify the situation and how to remove the program. Please follow the simple instructions carefully and the problem will cease. For anyone else who d/l the particular demo with the issue… REBOOT YOUR MACHINE. Thats it. Remove the setup.exe file and go to http://homeopathyonline.org and download the fixed version of the Demo.

Unless of course you wish to throw a hissy fit. That is your right and I stand by your side in allowing you to do so.

However, please remember that our patients read our words. They evaluate our abilities and thinking patterns by what we write. They will make a judgment on our abilities based on our behavior.

I hope you have a better day tomorrow Marcela. I hope your temper improves and I hope you find what you want out of life. Mostly I hope that you learn mistakes happen and its not personal.

I wont hold my breath on that one.