Dr. Kenneth Iserson’s patient not only has a bad cough, but she also has a tuberculosis scar on her neck. Dr. Iserson is stumped when his patient says she cant remember anything for the past 20 years, including whether she was treated for TB.
He resorts to hypnosis despite the objections of his head nurse.
Despite Iserson’s lack of experience or training in hypnosis, the session works.
Unfortunately, that’s all I have of this episode.
Now, while I absolutely advocate medical professionals learning and using hypnosis, I would strongly suggest that Iserson would have gotten much farther quicker if he’d have consulted a qualified competently trained professional hypnotist. Some licensed practitioners don’t see hypnotists as equals as they tend not to have the medical or counseling background found in the medical professionals but they are specialists in hypnosis and typically have a LOT more training in the use of that modality than anyone else (kind of the point of being a specialist). Alternatively, Iserson may wish to undergo more indepth training himself or get similar training for his nurses (actually, nurses are perfect candidates for hypnosis training as they’re the ones who are most typically first point of contact with patients, particularly in emergency room situations).
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Brian
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