A way of setting up a homeopathic outpatient clinic for obstetrics at a university hospital
M Bitschnau Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien, Universitfrauenklinik, Wien, Austria
This lecture aims to demonstrate how a homeopathic clinic can be set up at a University Hospital, how it is organized, how patients are referred and what diseases can be cured. The ideal indications of the use of homeopathy as an alternative treatment and the indications for complementary use will be differentiated.
The possibility of organizing the institutionalised use of homeopathic remedies in labour and delivery room as well as on the puerperal ward will also be discussed.
The importance and advantages of doing research on homeopathy will be highlighted as well as the problems in using traditional study designs rather than new alternative study designs in homeopathic trials.
This speech will show one way in which homeopathy can gain acceptance and respect from medical staff, midwives and referring doctors.