The Three Laws of Medicine

These are the three laws that should govern any practice of medicine from any kind of practitioner.

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Primum non Nocere Tolle Causum Vis Medicatrix Naturae

Firstly do no harm Treat the Cause The Healing Power of Nature

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This last ‘healing power’ law is the hardest to understand and, in many ways, the most important. In the most practical and down-to-earth way you could imagine, it means that there is a natural ‘force’ that exists in all living things that enables them to adapt to adversity, self-regulate and, above all, self-heal when sickness or injury has done them damage.

Medicine and medical people make a grave mistake when they think that their own knowledge and ability is superior to this natural force. The ‘healing power of nature’ is the best thing you or anyone will ever have going for them when it comes to getting well. We are very good at getting in its way and giving it away, but you don’t have to do anything to have it in the first place, if you are alive, it is yours already.

Tolle Causum; Treat the Cause. It sounds so simple, wishfully thinking there would be just one single and simple cause for each and every problem in our lives.

In the real world, when people get sick, it is everything and anything that they have been doing, thinking, eating, feeling that all equally lend their ingredients to the astonishingly complex soup known as a life.

The best way to approach treating the cause is with a very open mind and zero bias towards one part of life being more important than another. The best way to start finding out what is causing someone to get sick is to ask them what they think about it. Most people already know.

The first rule, do no harm is ridiculously difficult to live by. You can take it just to mean do not wilfully hurt people and you would not be wrong but the law goes a lot deeper than that.
As a Doctor, doing no harm is not just about not giving people treatments that might make them sicker, it is equally about making sure that you tell people when you can see them putting themselves in harm’s way. This is not an easy task. Most people are the architects of their own health’s misfortune. They want you to give them something to feel better, not to tell them to deal with the cause of why they are sick.  Being up front with people can harm their feelings, not telling the truth as you best see it may mean you miss your one chance to avert the greater harm coming.

In the ancient world these ideas were once at the heart of medical training, now they have largely been forgotten, but that does not make them any less true.

These laws are living guides to practicing medicine in an ethical, compassionate and powerful way.

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