1. What factors have led to the person attending for homeopathic treatment?
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2. Can life events such as grief be seen to trigger pathological states?
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3. Can conventional treatments be seen to create negative syndrome shift (26)?
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4. What is it like to live with common conditions such as RA?
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Questions about the therapeutic process
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1. What is different about homeopathic case-taking?
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2. What types of questioning lead to the gathering of rich information?
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3. How do written records compare with transcripts?
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Questions testing homeopathic theory
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1. Do symptom aggravations occur in practice and what is their nature?
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2. Do old symptoms return in the healing process?
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3. Does healing occur in accordance with "Hering's Law"?
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4. What themes emerge when comparing several cases apparently helped by the same remedy?
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Questions on outcome
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1. Has positive therapeutic change occurred in this case/these cases?
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2. What explanations are there for positive change?
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3. In which medical conditions is homeopathy apparently effective?
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4. How in subjective terms do people describe healing experiences?
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5. To what factors do patients attribute their change?
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6. What adverse events have occurred in the course of treatment?
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7. In what ways are patients satisfied/dissatisfied with their care?
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