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Medical INTUITIVES in healthcare: a Survey by the National Organization for MEdical Intuition

The use of Medical Intuition has been recorded in clinical healthcare for more than two centuries, yet little is known about the practices and training of medical intuitives, or the use of Medical Intuition in healthcare.

Although acknowledgement of Medical Intuition exists within the medical community (2005, Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States, IOM), scientific research on the skill is sparse, with only a handful of studies published over several decades. However, anecdotal accounts of medical intuitives working in clinical healthcare settings are common knowledge among professional medical intuitives.

A group of medical intuitive practitioners and educators determined that more information on the use of this skill in healthcare should be brought to light. An initial survey was designed to gather information on the training, practices and uses of Medical Intuition. The survey was sent to over 300 self-identified professional medical intuitives in the United States.

The results found that 82% of medical intuitives surveyed assist licensed healthcare professionals with Medical Intuition services for their patients and clients. These licensed healthcare professionals include physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, naturopathic doctors, nurses, mental healthcare, and complementary and integrative providers such as acupuncturists and chiropractors.

Further, 86% report receiving referrals from licensed medical professionals for Medical Intuition services. Additionally, 30% identified themselves as licensed healthcare providers.

This report presents the first data of its kind gathered in the United States, and offers a promising future that includes trained, professional medical intuitives as part of a comprehensive healthcare team.

Read the complete report: “The Use of Medical Intuition in Healthcare”
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ASSESSING THE ACCURACY OF MEDICAL INTUITION
JOURNAL OF Integrative AND COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE (JICM)

This exploratory study examined subjective accuracy and rates of acceptance of trained medical intuitives. Findings included a 94% accuracy rate of the Medical Intuitive’s ability to locate and evaluate the participant’s primary physical issue; 100% accuracy to locate a secondary physical issue (86% of participants responding); 98% accuracy in describing the participant’s life events, and 93% accuracy in describing a connection between the life events and health issues. Additionally, 94% (of the 49% of the participants who responded to this question) indicated ‘‘Agree/Strongly Agree’’ that the medical intuitive was consistent with a known medical diagnosis.

Read more: https://doi.org/10.1089/acm.2020.0244

Colter, Wendie and Mills, Paul J. (2020). Assessing the Accuracy of Medical Intuition: A Subjective and Exploratory Study. Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine (New York, N.Y.), 26(12), 1130–1135.

INTUITIVE ASSESSMENTS: AN OVERVIEW
By Daniel J. Benor, MD

Intuitives, including healers, are often able to obtain psychic impressions about people upon whom they focus their attention. These impressions may include information about the states of the subject’s body, emotions, mind, relationships and spiritual dimensions. Research on intuitive assessments is limited.

The development of intuitive awareness has far broader implications and applications beyond medical intuition. The process of knowing the world intuitively opens into an awareness of oneness with all creation, into realms that we have labeled as spiritual and mystical. This mode of knowing may be of enormous value in addressing some of the global crises challenging the continuation of our very existence on this planet.

I suggest assessment is more appropriate than diagnosis for the intuitive impressions about health and illness that are discussed here.

Read more: https://www.danielbenor.com/intuitive-assessments-an-overview

Copyright © Daniel J. Benor, M.D. 2001 Reprinted with permission of the author P.O. Box 76 Bellmawr, NJ 08099 www.WholisticHealingResearch.com  DB@danielbenor.com

 

Additional Research

Wahbeh, H., Speirn, P., Yount, G. (2022, December). Extended Visual Perception Corroboration: A Pilot Study with Energy Medicine Reiki Practitioners. Integrative Medicine Reports 2023 2:1, 14-25

Mason, R. (2000, December). Expanding Diagnostic Vision with Medical Intuition, Interviews with Jay Caliendo, Medical Intuitive, and Abraham Kuruvilla, M.D., M.D.(H). Alternative and Complementary Therapies Journal, 331-336

Benor, D.J. (1992). Intuitive Diagnosis. Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine Journal, Vol 3, Number 2, pp. 41-64 https://journals.sfu.ca/seemj/index.php/seemj/article/viewFile/150/115

Jobst, K. A. (1997). One Man’s Meat Is Another Man’s Poison: The Challenge of Psychic/Intuitive Diagnosis to the Diagnostic Paradigm of Orthodox Medical Science. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 3(1), 1–3.

 

Burk, L., O’Brien, B., Charron, J. M., Sherman, K. J., & Bullock, M. L. (1997). Psychic/Intuitive Diagnosis: Two Case Reports and Commentary. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 3(3), 209–211.

Liem, T. (2017, Sep 1). Intuitive Judgment in the Context of Osteopathic Clinical Reasoning. Journal of the American Osteopath Association, 117(9):586-594. doi: 10.7556/jaoa.2017.113

Melin-Johansson, C., Palmqvist, R. & Rönnberg, L. (2017, Mar 22). Clinical Intuition in the Nursing Process and Decision-Making - a Mixed-Studies Review. Journal of Clinical Nursing.
doi: 10.1111/jocn.13814

Roseman-Halsband, J. L., Marcow Speiser, V., & Lafferty, L. (2017). Intuition in Medicine. Alternative and Complementary Therapies, 23(6), 231–235;

Hassani, P., Abdi., A., Jalali, R. & Salari, N. (2016, Feb 10). Use of Intuition by Critical Care Nurses: a Phenomenological Study. Advances in Medical Education and Practice, Volume 7, 65-71 https://www.dovepress.com/use-of-intuition-by-critical-care-nurses-a-phenomenological-study-peer-reviewed-article-AMEP

Mickelborough, Tim (Oct. 1, 2015). Intuition in Medical Practice: A Reflection on Donald Schön’s Reflective Practitioner. Medical Teacher, Volume 37, Issue 10

Woolley, A., & Kostopoulou, O. (2013). Clinical Intuition in Family Medicine: More than First Impressions. Annals of Family Medicine, 11(1), 60–66. https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.1433

Green, C., (2012). Nursing Intuition: A Valid Form of Knowledge. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Nursing Philosophy, 13, pp. 98–111.

Miller, E.M. & Hill, P.D. (2017, Aug). Intuition in Clinical Decision Making: Differences Among Practicing Nurses. Journal of Holistic Nursing. 1:898010117725428. doi: 10.1177/0898010117725428

Peterkin, Alan MD, (2017, April 10). Physician Intuition. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 189(14): E544. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5386850/

Lufityanto, G., Donkin, C., & Pearson, J. (2016). Measuring Intuition: Nonconscious Emotional Information Boosts Decision Accuracy and Confidence. Psychological Science.
doi: 10.1177/0956797616629403

Pretz, et al (2014). Development and Validation of a New Measure of Intuition: the Types of Intuition Scale. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 27, 454-467

Marks-Tarlow, T. (2012). Clinical Intuition in Psychotherapy: The Neurobiology of Embodied Response (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) (Illustrated ed.). W. W. Norton & Company. (pp.3, 30, 32, 42, 163, 188)

Schwarzkopf, D. S. (2014). We Should Have Seen This Coming. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00332.

Cork, L.L., (2014). Nursing Intuition as an Assessment Tool in Predicting Severity of Injury in Trauma Patients. Journal of Trauma Nursing 21(5): 244-252.

Amoils, S. (2002). The Diagnostic Validity of Human Electromagnetic Field (Aura) Perception. Medical Acupuncture, 13(2), 25–28.

Greenhalgh, T. (2002). Intuition and Evidence – Uneasy Bedfellows? The British Journal of General Practice: The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 52(478), 395–400.