Dare to Differ - A Doctor’s Quest for a Gentle Cure

Dare to DifferA Doctor's Quest for a Gentle Cure Acknowledgments and Source of Funding This book review is available in Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy: https://www.ijrh.org/journal/vol17/iss2/ 11 125 © 2023 Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy | Hosted online by Digital Commons (Bepress) Book Review Dare to Differ A Doctor’s Quest for a Gentle Cure Author: Dr. Kusum S. Chand Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books ISBN: 978-93-5447-329-6 eISBN: 978-93-5447-330-2 Year of publication: 2022 “Dare to Differ” is a phrase that encourages one to embrace their uniqueness and express themselves in ways that deviate from the norm or societal expectations, bringing new perspectives and possibilities to light. It promotes the idea of being bold, standing out from the crowd and having the courage to pursue one’s own path rather than conforming to the status quo. This book is not written just to highlight a belief in a system that works, but it is a story unveiling the journey of a doctor practicing for four decades; her passion and a quest to tell the world that all the systems of medicine whether conventional or traditional have their own strengths and limitations. She proposes that to work in an integrative model is the best approach for providing gentle cure, thereby reducing human sufferings, which is the sole aim of a physician. Reading this book is a real treat: it is unbiased, thorough and filled with a lot of very interesting details and scientific facts presented in a clear and concise manner. Personally, I felt that this book clarifies a lot of questions and confusion that many may have about alternative medicine. This small book packs years of learning in the clinic by the author through her observations, trials and experiments, leading to formulations of treatment regimens. The first part of the book depicts the journey of the author becoming a doctor in times when a girl’s education beyond a certain point was considered meaningless and arousal of dilemma whether existing knowledge of medicine was lacking somewhere that prevented complete annihilation of the disease. Dr. Chand’s own experience of suffering from drug-resistant urinary tract infection, the distrust felt in alternate medicine and subsequently to be treated by a homoeopathic physician aroused her inquisitiveness to know more about Homoeopathy. In her quest, she started reading homoeopathic books and prescribing homoeopathic medicine for small day-to-day ailments. The use of allopathy as the as main medicine and Homoeopathy for the relief of symptoms was an initial step for an integrative approach with the moto of relieving the suffering of humanity. She was soon famous and was known as ‘two prescriptions doctor’. She developed a keen interest in Homoeopathy and enrolled herself in a course. The second section, ‘Tryst with homoeopathy as homoeopath’, narrates the beginning of a single prescription doctor as a homoeopath after acquiring membership of faculty of Homoeopathy, London, U.K. The uncharted path where there were many ways of prescribing and experiences of stalwarts written in books was confusing but undismayed, the author experimented with various methods and learnt that it is best to have evidence-based reproducible results. The author comes *Address for correspondence: Dr. Renu Mittal, Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy, New Delhi, India. E-mail: renumittal8@gmail.com Received: 12 June 2023; Accepted: 13 June 2023 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. How to cite this article: Mittal R. Dare to Differ A Doctor’s Quest for a Gentle Cure. Indian J Res Homoeopathy 2023;17:125-127. Dare to Differ A Doctor’s Quest for a Gentle Cure