Expect a Miracle: You Won't Be Disappointed

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Summary: Expect a Miracle: You Won't Be Disappointed
Review: Before I read Expect a Miracle I was in constant pain from a Worker's Comp injury. Everything required authorization by the insurance. I was referred to a surgeon who immediately wanted to operate to fuse two vertebrae in my neck. This terrified me but I felt trapped and limited in my choice of treatment options. After I read Expect a Miracle by Tel Franklin, M.D. which explains both conventional and alternative treatments and how to develop "appreciative dialogue" with everyone involved in your "healing journey" I became empowered. I coordinated many different treatment options as suggested in his book. Through the workbook format of the book I was able to evaluate each option. This book gave me control of my life again. Dr Franklin helps you to feel good about yourself, your choices in life and makes you aware of all the little miracles we experience in everyday life - the real priorities. I chose to have a successful surgery and am now considering acupuncture as an alternative to steroids for my son's asthma. This book is filled with so many positve success stories I recommend it to everyone. It is so uplifting you can't put it down and the workbook sections are easy, fun and insightful.

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Summary: Expect a Miracle: You Won't Be Disappointed
Review: Before I read Expect a Miracle I was in constant pain from a Worker's Comp injury. Everything required authorization by the insurance. I was referred to a surgeon who immediately wanted to operate to fuse two vertebrae in my neck. This terrified me but I felt trapped and limited in my choice of treatment options. After I read Expect a Miracle by Tel Franklin, M.D. which explains both conventional and alternative treatments and how to develop "appreciative dialogue" with everyone involved in your "healing journey" I became empowered. I coordinated many different treatment options as suggested in his book. Through the workbook format of the book I was able to evaluate each option. This book gave me control of my life again. Dr Franklin helps you to feel good about yourself, your choices in life and makes you aware of all the little miracles we experience in everyday life - the real priorities. I chose to have a successful surgery and am now considering acupuncture as an alternative to steroids for my son's asthma. This book is filled with so many positve success stories I recommend it to everyone. It is so uplifting you can't put it down and the workbook sections are easy, fun and insightful.

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Summary: A "user friendly" self-help workbook
Review: Expect A Miracle: The Four-Step Life-Changing "Question & Answer Process" For Managing Your Healing And Health by Dr. Tel Franklin is a "user friendly" self-help workbook for improving one's physical and mental health and habits. Questions for self-awareness and self-actualization form cornerstones of the prompts that lead the reader on a voyage of discovery and understanding with the goal of improving one's overall quality of life. Expect A Miracle is a recommended do-it-yourself workbook addition to self-help, self-improvement bookshelves.

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Summary: A "user friendly" self-help workbook
Review: Expect A Miracle: The Four-Step Life-Changing "Question & Answer Process" For Managing Your Healing And Health by Dr. Tel Franklin is a "user friendly" self-help workbook for improving one's physical and mental health and habits. Questions for self-awareness and self-actualization form cornerstones of the prompts that lead the reader on a voyage of discovery and understanding with the goal of improving one's overall quality of life. Expect A Miracle is a recommended do-it-yourself workbook addition to self-help, self-improvement bookshelves.

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Summary: Redefining modern healthcare
Review: I have used Dr. Franklin's book for personal and professional purposes and found that it offers me and my patients a deeper insight and new perspective toward healthcare. The workbook not only educates the readers about alternative and complementary medicine, it guides them toward becoming actively involved and accountable for their health.

Dr. Franklin's book has offerred me the opportunity to enhance dialogue and relationships I have with my patients in addition to revamping my own personal outlook and choices. It is an excellent resource and should be on the shelf of patients and provider alike.

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Summary: Paradigm Shift In How Medicine Should Be Practiced
Review: The book shows a practical way to discuss the inner self in the medical process of health and/or healing. It is wonderfully written in that the workbook section gives a step-by-step plan that requires journal writings. These are done in a positive way.

The bottom line is that this is how medicine should be practiced not only by doctors and health care providers but especially by patients. We learn how patients through Appreciative Dialogue have postive choices for optimum health.

After reading this book, I am not surprised to learn that Dr. Tel Franklin is ranked in the top 50 physicians in California.

This is much better than all Dr. Andrew Weil's books.

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Summary: Changing The Way Medicine Is Practiced In The U.S.
Review: The latest in the ongoing parade of books aimed at helping one transform his or her experience of personal health, and integrate Eastern and Western healthcare modalities. But with an important and valuable difference. Dr. Franklin, an award-winning family doctor in Monterey, California, has recognized that the alternative modalities are still being delivered in the old, traditional "top-down" manner, doctor-expert to passive, receptive patient. And the current health model is still the old allopathic disease-diagnosis-treatment.

In his new workbook, Expect A Miracle - You Won't Be Disappointed: A Healing Journey With Appreciative Dialogue, Franklin introduces several concepts that he believes are necessary to truly transform patient care in the U.S. These are: 1) shift the model from disease-diagnosis-treatment to the vision and creation of optimal health, 2) put patients in the driver's seat of their healthcare program, in partnership with their practitioners, and 3) get the practitioners all communicating and cooperating. Pretty revolutionary!

Dr. Franklin's mission is nothing less than "to change the way medicine is practiced in the U. S." This new workbook is a tool that patients and practitioners can use to begin to effect the specific changes he cites. Enormously valuable for people who want to take greater control of their health and healing, Expect A Miracle leads readers through a visionary and research-based, inventory and journaling process to discover positive solutions for health challenges and develop a personalized "map" to follow on their journey to optimal health. Truly transformative. One of a kind.

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Summary: a great new begining
Review: this book was my map to achieve the ultimate in life, fabulous book