Medical training
Before exploring any complementary approaches, I felt the need to have a good understanding of conventional medicine. I spend 6 years in medical school, followed by 10 years of postgraduate medical training. I joined Royal College of Physicians in 2011 and worked in hospital medicine for over a decade. While preparing to become a consultant in internal medicine, I trained in all the clinical specialities – cardiology, gastroenterology, neurology, rheumatology, dermatology, geriatrics, and emergency medicine A&E.
I then undertook a further 3 years training for General Practice, which extended my experience into several other specialities - Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Surgery, ENT Ear Nose and Throat illnesses, and Psychiatry. I joined the Royal College of General Practitioners in 2013. I have been a GP in NHS for the past 10 years.
This training is extremely valuable to fully understand what mainstream medicine has to offer each patient’s medical condition.
My homeopathic journey
As a young child I made a successful recovery from childhood asthma with homeopathic medicines after having struggled with the condition on conventional drugs for several years. This brought homeopathy into our family forever. My parents were amazed how quickly we would recover from childhood illness with remedies. As children my sister and I used to play with homeopathic empty bottles instead of toys! We both became doctors later on.
After qualifying in medicine as a hospital doctor, as a member of the Royal College of Physicians and alongside my GP training, I embarked on studying classical homeopathy on a training programme for doctors at the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital. I then joined a 4 year homeopathy training with the School of Homoeopathy where I learned the more modern approach of the Sensation Method.
There followed many years of postgraduate training in UK and Europe with many of the great teachers in the world, including Rajan Sankarn, Massimo Mangliavori, Mikal Yakir, Jeremy Sher, on all approaches in homeopathy: Classical, Sensation Method, and Evolutionary Model.
In this time I have found it immensely inspiring to see hundreds of live cases and to witness patients being relieved of a wide range of medical conditions using homeopathic remedies. The resolution of their symptoms was gentle, permanent and to a level of depth I hadn’t seen before.
Anthropsophic Training
Training in Anthroposophical Medicine is available to qualified doctors only because it requires an understanding of physiology and pathology of disease. Anthroposophic Medicine is very popular in Germany where many GPs are Anthroposophicaly trained.
In Germany there are also several large hospitals where alongside all the modern conventional clinical testing and surgical procedures, patients are supported by Anthroposophic therapies (Art therapy, Massage therapy, Counselling) and receive Anthroposophic oral or injectable remedies in conjunction with conventional drugs.
In England there have been four NHS GP surgeries where doctors were working with Anthroposophic medicines alongside all GP treatments, over a period of 30 years. I was fortunate to work in one of such surgeries until its closure in 2022.
As an Anthroposophical doctor I have found Anthroposophic medicines to be reliable and effective. Patients come back reporting an improvement of symptoms, more energy, and a sense of inner wellbeing and emotional and physical resilience.
After qualifying the 3 year training course I am now supporting the Anthroposophic Medical teaching team in the UK.
