Office: A waiting area like the better kind of spa; quiet, earth-tones, peaceful, with plants or maybe some running water. Possibly also some informative booklets.
For your second question... honestly? I don't think I'd ever say "A doctor won't work for this, i need a healer". When I think I"I want something other than a doctor", I want an expert who will explain how best to be healthy in some specific way, not an alternate form of medicine. Less of a healer and more of an expert-in-healthy-living.
Come to think of it, there are two exceptions to that: I go to a chiropractor explicitly because I think it's been really effective *something*, albeit probably partly placebo and attention, for back pain; and I have been considering going to a hypnotist for my trichotillomania, because it might be a useful way to trick my brain into getting on my side. (Not that I'd have considered the second, ever, if my mother didn't keep bringing up "it worked for so-and-so" anecdotes, and I still haven't gotten around to it.) Both of those probably count as healers for your definition, and in both cases the reason I'm considering them is some combination of "inconvenient/expensive to work with dr/there in an emergency", "done in conjunction with dr", and "doctor didn't help much, might as well try something else."
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Date: 2010-01-12 09:59 pm (UTC)For your second question... honestly? I don't think I'd ever say "A doctor won't work for this, i need a healer". When I think I"I want something other than a doctor", I want an expert who will explain how best to be healthy in some specific way, not an alternate form of medicine. Less of a healer and more of an expert-in-healthy-living.
Come to think of it, there are two exceptions to that: I go to a chiropractor explicitly because I think it's been really effective *something*, albeit probably partly placebo and attention, for back pain; and I have been considering going to a hypnotist for my trichotillomania, because it might be a useful way to trick my brain into getting on my side. (Not that I'd have considered the second, ever, if my mother didn't keep bringing up "it worked for so-and-so" anecdotes, and I still haven't gotten around to it.) Both of those probably count as healers for your definition, and in both cases the reason I'm considering them is some combination of "inconvenient/expensive to work with dr/there in an emergency", "done in conjunction with dr", and "doctor didn't help much, might as well try something else."