Objective

• Following a study indicating medical intuition accuracy in excess of 90% and given the trend toward telemedicine, cost reduction, and pragmatic applied approaches, this exploratory research aims to evaluate medical intuitive accuracy from patient and clinician perspective and to determine medical intuition’s usefulness with patients clinicians are unable to diagnose or unable to treat successfully. The research contrasts for clinicians the use of a medical intuitive vs. clinician usual care with their most challenging patients

Hypotheses

• Medical intuition is useful to a clinician with their patients of treatment resistant condition or unknown etiology
• The clinician desires to continue to use medical intuition with his/her clients
• Medical intuition influences the clinical process as gauged by the clinician’s consideration of other diagnoses/treatments, ordering further tests, validating aspects of diagnosis
• Medical intuitive-provided health information, energetic information, and how it impacts health is accurate according to the patient
• Medical intuitive-provided health information is accurate according to the clinician
• Medical intuitive-provided energetic information is useful to the clinician

Participants

• 5-7 trained medical intuitives
• 5-10 clinicians from a broad geographical cross-section
• 40 participant clients with treatment resistant conditions or unknown etiology by video, meeting first alone with their clinician and again on a later date with clinician and medical intuitive

Outcomes

• Usefulness: Physicians average ratings for the usefulness of the medical intuition sessions were high. They also reported that information on the connection between a patient’s life events and their health was highly useful. Physicians said they would continue to use medical intuitives and would recommend the use of a medical intuitive to a colleague. Physicians rated the usefulness of the medical intuitive information on their clinical process similar to the usual care visit
• Accuracy and Satisfaction: Physician and patient accuracy ratings were very high and high, respectively, which is noteworthy as the medical intuitives had no previous knowledge of the patient’s identity or health information. Physicians’ satisfaction with the medical intuition sessions overall was very high. Patients’ satisfaction ratings were very high for both the usual care visits and the medical intuition sessions. Patients agreed or strongly agreed that the medical intuitive located the specific area of their body related to their main physical health issue or concern (72%), described events from their life that were probable or possible (67%), helped them make a connection between probable or possible life events and how they may be potentially impacting their current issues or concerns (70%), helped them to identify potential underlying causes of their current issues or concerns (60%), and gave them useful recommendations (80%). The majority of patients either agreed or strongly agreed with the assessment made by the medical intuitive regarding the link between life events and health symptoms, a view also corroborated by the physicians as useful information
• In future studies, the use of a randomized clinical trial, clinical outcome assessment over time, and more validated instruments would produce more robust results, as would larger patient and physician samples sizes, a diverse patient sample, and a more generalizable physician sample to best control for credibility and expectancy factors