Letters to the Editor
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1999 Mar / Apr VOL VIII NO 2.
- You and your team deserve applause and congratulations for the commendable work done through the NJH. With my experience of so much international travelling, I have no hesitation in saying that NJH is now one of the important pillars for promotion of Scientific Homoeopathy worldwide.
As desired by you, I will send you our documented hospital work on applied Homoeopathy. The first in the proposed series of articles is Spectrum of Hepato-Biliary diseases.
-Dr Alok Pareek Agra
- I have not been receiving the issues regularly. The material is not up to our expectations. We would like to have articles written by classical Homoeopaths and cases with long follow up. We find the NJH more expensive than other Journals. Mere attractive bound volumes will not fetch more subscribers.
-Vishakha Jagadale Pune
- Higher subscription: I hope you took into account that there are 6 issues/yr of 76 pgs. each. Most other Journals are 4/yr or 3/yr and cover general articles and assorted cases without a basic theme and some combine two issues and publish very late; and the no of pages of such journals are much less.
- Not receiving issues: Yes, we have had a problem with Poona. So we will ask Dr Parna Kategeri to explain. But I think it is because we have lumped Poona as one city under one person. Maybe it will be more effective to break up into various suburbs- Chinchwad, Pimpri, Kothrud and Vishrantwadi. We can have various nodals in each of these areas. Would you be able to handle Vishrantwadi?
- Any product has 2 aspects: contents and packaging. Both are important, though it can never be denied that Content is more important. NJH tries hard to address both.
- Content: We constantly invite senior doctors to write-thru personal invitations, thru the Journal and so on. We do not understand the term classical Homoeopaths and we in NJH do not publish articles where polypharmacy has been practiced. Merely saying that the articles published are not upto your expectations is not helpful, unless you specify. We would have appreciated if you had written a detailed criticism of any particular article indicating its shortcomings against your expectations, instead of writing in a post card. Why don't you yourself write a model case so that others can see and emulate?
- Remember, writing is not the easiest thing in the world and in any profession only 5% write. In Homoeopathy, this percentage is still lower.
Vishakha, if you can get the senior doctors of Pune to write, all NJH readers would appreciate it. We have similarly requested all the other Nodals to get senior doctors in their city to share their experiences. Please also refer my editorials of Keynotes 6/ 98 and of the Anxiety issue 1/99. - About long follow-ups: I did sample checks on 2-3 issues including the latest ANXIETY issue, wherein a number of follow-ups are of 1 yr duration. In any FU only highlights or important turning points should be given. If every FU throughout the year is given, it will run into 2 pages.
- There are many angles to be seen when running a Journal, including space.
- Sometimes patients get well so rapidly; there is nothing else to report, though certainly a tab has to be kept on the patient through relatives etc for a long period.
- I hope I have addressed every one of your complaints appropriately.
-Editor
- I really liked the How Will you Handle this Case in Anxiety issue. It was almost like reading a thriller.
-Subaraman, Mumbai. - I no longer able to help with proof-reading etc, so for me too the Anxiety issue was like reading it afresh. The topic has been covered so exhaustively; that I think even Hahnemann would have been proud of it.
-Gunavante, Mumbai. - Kasi Vishwanathan's article on Post-Retirement Blues was really an eye-opener and should give direction to a lot of over 65's.
- Mankani, Mumbai.
