Dare to Differ : A Doctor's Quest for a Gentle Cure

A compelling account of a woman who graduates with honours from a premier medical school in Delhi and enters the world of medicine, convinced about the efficacy of the allopathic system of treatment. But along the way circumstances and incidents drive her to do a rethink and she becomes a flagbearer for an alternate system of treating patients―homeopathy. A postgraduate of the latter half of the twentieth century, an era when modern medicine, or allopathy, was growing by leaps and bounds, Dr Kusum Chand was concerned by the weaknesses she could discern in the system. So she embarked on years of learning and experimentation with homeopathy. It took her more than two decades to personally validate its effectiveness, a period when she became popular as a ‘two prescriptions doctor’. As she puts it, allopathy and homeopathy are like two colours of the spectrum, blue and yellow, good by themselves. But when they come together, a new colour―green―is formed, which denotes good health and wellness. The book includes several case studies which support her theories. This lucid and riveting account is as engrossing for the lay reader as it is informative for those in the medical profession. Dare to Differ is certain to resonate with people across the globe looking for validated work on a gentler system of healing

Dr. Kusum S. Chand is a post-graduate in Medicine from MAMC, University of Delhi. She has been a member of the Faculty of Homeopathy, London, since 1998. She has clinical experience of over 45 years; has been visiting professor/examiner of medicine at Nehru Medical College of Homeopathy, New Delhi, for over 25 years; an active participant in the Government of Delhi’s project on ‘Role of Homeopathy in MDR TB’; a resource person for the Central Council for Research in Homeopathy on the National Campaign on Mother & Child Care since 2007 and a reviewer for the journal IJRH. Her work on tuberculosis has won national and international awards and has been published in international journals. Currently, she is visiting head of department of homeopathy at Max Vaishali Super Speciality Hospital, Ghaziabad, since 2008 and a member of the advisory board of the international journal Homeopathy