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Having faith in healing in an NHS practice
Dr. Tim Harlow

Like all doctors, Dr. Harlow has been immersed in a version of the scientific method – yet he finds that he is daily confronted with the limits of our scientific knowledge. Considering medicine as the most practical of matters, he is prepared to use whatever allies he can in his dealings with illness and injury. While he considers that science is one very important way of looking at the world, he suggested in this talk that there are ways other than the scientific one of viewing the world, and that these can be undervalued. He argued that healing (or faith healing, as it is often known) has been and continues to be a powerful influence for good on his practice and for his patients.

Dr. Tim Harlow After a brief flirtation with Zoology at Oxford, Dr. Harlow studied medicine at Birmingham where he also worked in various hospitals, including a year of psychiatry. He moved to College Surgery, Cullompton, Devon in 1987 as a family doctor. Here he began to integrate complementary medicine into his conventional NHS practice, both by practising hypnotherapy and by encouraging patients to use local complementary practitioners. From 1992 until the present there have been two healers working in the College Surgery. Since 2003 he has worked mainly in palliative care in Exeter, as well as continuing some general practice in Cullompton. He has been closely involved in the Peninsula Medical School Masters in Integrated Health Care and in 2006 led the module on Paradigms of Healthcare.

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