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Practitioners and patients alike, will benefit from your published cases.  Please use this form to upload your Word Document (.doc) or text (.txt) file and we will review them for publication on www.txoptions.com.  Before you post your case, read the article "Facing Down the Blank White Page: Step-by-Step Writing Case Reports to Help Other Homeopaths and Patients", by Dr. Iris Bell.  Thanks very much for taking the time to educate all of us in the homeopathic community!

Before uploading your case, be sure to include the following information:

Homeopath’s Name:

Homeopath’s Practice Location (optional)

Homeopath’s email (optional)

Homeopath’s phone number (optional)

Homeopath’s Degrees and/or Certifications (check all that apply)

MD
DO
ND/NMD
DC
LAc
Other (specify)

CHC
DHt
DHANP
RSHom(NA)
FCAH
Other (specify)

Do you have the patient’s permission to post the case Yes No

Fictitious First Name of Patient (never use patient’s real name or initials – use only the fictitious name you make up for the patient throughout your description of the case)

Patient Age

Patient Gender

Patient Marital Status

Patient Occupation

Brief statement of why this case is worth reading

Approximately how long did you continue to get follow-up information on the patient (state days or months or years) after their first visit with you?

How many visits (approximately) did you have with the patient?

Description of Patient’s Appearance and Notable Behaviors during Case-Taking

Patient’s presenting (chief) complaint (why did they come to see you originally?)

Patient’s allopathic diagnoses (complete list)

Patient’s allopathic drugs (prescribed and over the counter)

Other forms of complementary and alternative medicine the patient has used and/or now used at the time of initial interview – and for what problems? Did those treatments help?

Family history of allopathic diagnoses and/or causes of death in blood relatives

Notable excerpts of the patient’s own words describing their case (include mentals, generals, specific physicals).

Summary of other aspects of the case-taking interview and observations (including information from significant others, charts, other health care providers)

What was your initial analysis of the case in terms of remedy possibilities (kingdom, family, specific remedy) and potency (specify strength of vital force and center of gravity evaluation; other clinical considerations such as concomitant allopathic drugs or treatments)? Tell us what led you to settle on the specific treatment you did and to rule out other options at the time?

What did the patient report during each follow-up visit?

What did you observe about the patient during each follow-up visit?

List the aspects of the case that improved, if any.

List the aspects of the case that worsened, if any.

List the aspects of the case that did not change, if any.

List of Remedies and Potencies Given, by date (if possible, specify month and year of each dose)

Share your ideas about the case as it developed – what may have led to changes in remedy selection or potency? How do you see the patient’s outcome (your assessment as a homeopath, not necessarily what the patient reported)?

Final Comments (please add any other information or comments that you consider essential for readers to know or to think about in applying this case report information in their own practices).