The importance of Love in Health care: Exploring Alternative Medicine and its Complementary Relationship with Conventional Medicine

In 1979, Peter Johnston, a family doctor with three young children, received the news that his 32-year-old wife had progressive and incurable lung disease. In the following two years, he saw four patients recover from incurable diseases using no medications, herbs, vitamins or any physical therapies. He could see the human body had a capacity for healing itself. This realization initiated a forty-year exploration of alternative healing systems, some of which he used alongside conventional medicine in his practice.

Peter’s book, “The Eagle’s Way: The Importance of Love in Healing” looks back at the changes he has seen over the sixty years of his study and practice of medicine. Despite the remarkable advances in medicine, surgery, obstetrics and resuscitation, he has witnessed an increasing interest in alternative and complementary medicine by…