Hospitals
are experiencing a need to reduce costs and at the same time improve patient
care. Expensive medication and technology posed an unsolvable dilemma. But Reiki
requires no technology at all and many of its practitioners offer their
services for nominal free. Reiki is therefore a very good way to improve care
while minimizing costs.
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Julie
Motz, a Reiki trained healer has worked with Dr. Mehmet Oz, a noted
cardiothoracic surgeon at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Centre in New York.
Motz uses Reiki and other subtle energy techniques to balance the patients'
energy during operations. She has assisted Dr. Oz in the operating room during
open heart surgeries and heart transplants. Motz reports that none of the 11
heart patients so treated experienced the usual postoperative depression, the
bypass patients had no postoperative pain or leg weakness; and the transplant
patients experienced no organ rejection.
An
article in the Marin Independent Journal follows Motz's work at the Marin
General Hospital in Marin County, California, just north of San Francisco. There Motz has used subtle energy
healing techniques with patients in the operating room. She makes a point of
communicating caring feelings and positive thoughts to the patients, and has
been given grants to work with mastectomy patients in particular.
Dr.
David Guillion, an oncologist at Marin General, has stated "I feel we need
to do whatever is in our power to help the patient. We provide state of the art
medicine in our office, but healing is a multidimensional process. . . . I
endorse the idea that there is a potential healing that can take place
utilizing energy."
