'Shortcuts to Chinese Medical Diagnosis via TCVM History Taking' Webinar Presented by Dr Steve Marsden

About the Webinar

Chinese medical diagnosis is challenging to conventionally trained doctors. Conventional medical diagnosis uses deductive logic to categorically dismiss diagnoses on the presence or absence of one clinical feature. Chinese medical diagnosis uses an inductive logical approach, where the correct diagnosis is the one that can account for every salient feature of a case. Chinese medical diagnosis is thus a creative synthetic right-brained type of process – a creation of a story about a patient - whereas veterinarians (as scientists) are most comfortable with left-brained thinking.

This lecture reviews the salient historical and laboratory findings that, when taken together, are the hallmarks of the most common Chinese medical diagnoses in practice. It also attempts to explain those diagnoses in conventional terms, so that the basis for the interpretations becomes clear. Lastly, it reviews the historical and laboratory findings that are pathognomonic for those Chinese diagnoses, so that in some cases, diagnoses can be made painlessly in an instant.