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Volume 5, Issue 2 (Suppl) J Tradi Med Clin Natur
ISSN: JTMCN, an open access journal
Page 52
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Traditional Medicine 2016
September 14-16, 2016
conferenceseries.com
September 14-16, 2016 Amsterdam, Netherlands
6th International Conference and Exhibition on
Traditional & Alternative Medicine
Leadership development via critical thinking in healthcare practice: a countermeasure to botox® popularity
and global aftermaths?
Philippe A Souvestre
NeuroKinetics Health Services, Inc., Canada
ISSUE: Widespread applications of Botox® have led to the necessity to reconsider how we evaluate nature and risks of therapies
Western Medicine provides. There is need for leadership skills such as critical thinking and looking at the broader picture to ask
if a given procedure is the best option available. In non-public healthcare, revenue concerns can be a driving consideration when
the reason we exist is to provide necessary protection and care when and where required. In academia, “publish or perish” is the
necessary law to maintain tenures and leadership, hence focused on providing volumes of technical papers not always neutral. Such
practices focused towards “making the numbers” over time have slowly created a state of lull and disconnect from the original
purpose of healthcare professions. Peer-reviewed studies show an 8% rate for Botox® fatal aftermaths, while increasingly provided
for non-medically indicated cosmetic procedures. How do we justify lethal risk and life-threatening incapacitation for such therapy?
Botox® is also being used for brain conditions such as post-concussion headache and depression where causative mechanisms are not
yet elucidated. Botox® side-effects risk management need reconsidering how such protocol should be pursued.
Proposal: As professionals, it is time to develop leadership and critical thinking such as asking the right questions, like whether
a given procedure is the best to “Do No Harm? Are there other therapeutic options to achieve similar objectives with less risk by
broadening our view? For example, Eastern Medicine provides effective innocuous techniques to address conditions such as muscle
spasticity.
Biography
Souvestre is the Director of Programs at NeuroKinetics, which includes Clinic and Research Institute. He authored over 130 publications in international peer-
reviewed scientific, engineering, and medical journals on fundamental biomedical and neurophysiological paradigms shifts leading to novel approaches to quantify
human performance and develop incapacitation countermeasures successfully used in advanced Traumatology towards resolving cognitive disconnect underlying
chronic plateaued conditions. His multidisciplinary biomedical training in both Western and Eastern Medicines and Cognitive and Behavioral Neurosciences led
him to design a very unique understanding and effective therapeutic approach to address fatigue, incapacitation, and conditions recognized as intractable in
mainstream Western Medicine.
Trinh Thi Thuy et al., J Tradi Med Clin Natur 2016, 5:2 (Suppl)