Vol.XII #4 - All The World's A Stage: A Case of High Drama and Extreme Mood Changes

Simillimum - Winter 1999

All The World's A Stage: A Case of High Drama and Extreme Mood Changes

Steve Olsen ND, DHANP

(From a talk presented at the HANP Case Conference, September 25, 1999 in Portland, Oregon)

This summer I took a writing course, and one of the people there was a poet.  This poem of hers really relates to what we do, and to this idea of verifying symptoms, and how we get to the point where we know that we have a valuable symptom.  The poem, written by Vicky Edmonds, is called "On Honesty."  Please imagine it as referring to the doctor-patient relationship.