Second Medical Opinion

Second Medical Opinion is a book that deals with medicine. It tells the story of fourteen people who were desperate because of a health problem that seemed to have no solution, which is why they had become true pilgrims, traveling and visiting different types of medical specialists with the hope of finding the way out of their anguished life as a sick person and, unable to find it, they decided to look for that second medical opinion that would provide them with something new, creative, different and assertive. The international declaration of patients’ rights states that every patient has the right to seek a second medical opinion to be more certain about the diagnosis received and the possible treatment that could be required to solve their illness. Through the experience of these fourteen people you will be able to understand and value the impact that this second medical opinion can have, and especially, if it comes from the so-called non-conventional, alternative, complementary or integrative medicine, since the patient becomes in a creative and innovative entity that goes against the current of what is established, breaks with all the schemes and chooses to follow an unusual but at the same time hopeful treatment methodology since it is supported by family and friends who also sought that second medical opinion and achieved their healing goals. Most patients who suffer from chronic diseases, difficult to treat or classified as incurable, do not usually seek a second medical opinion and tend to settle for established orthodox or conventional diagnoses and treatments, despite the fact that they do not offer them the desired healing for their health problem and turns them into happy slaves to medicines, pharmacies and hospitals. The fourteen patients who speak in this book will tell you how they lived that experience for years and carried a long history of suffering and frustration until the day they decided to seek that second medical opinion that brought them light to clear the darkness and be able to enjoy a new awakening, reaching the joy of regaining your health, the most precious treasure we all have.