MDI's Twelve Principles of Practice:
1. Unconditional love is life’s most powerful healer.
2. Optimal health is much more than the absence of sickness.
3. Illness is viewed as a manifestation of the whole person, not as an isolated event.
4. MDI's physicians embrace a variety of safe and effective options in diagnosis and treatment, including education for lifestyle changes, methods for self-care, and conventional drugs and surgery.
5. Searching for the underlying cause of disease is preferable to treating symptoms alone.
6. MDI's physicians expend as much effort to establishing what kind of patient has a disease as they do establishing what kind of disease a patient has.
7. Prevention is preferable to treatment and is usually more cost-effective. The most cost-effective approach evokes the patient’s own healing capabilities.
8. A major determinant of healing outcomes is the quality of the relationship established between physician and patient, in which patient autonomy is encouraged.
9. The ideal physician-patient relationship considers the needs, desires, awareness, and insight of the patient as well as those of the physician.
10. Physicians significantly influence patients by their example.
11. Illness, pain, and the dying process can be learning opportunities for patients and physicians.
12. MDI's physicians encourage patients to evoke the healing power of love, hope, humor and enthusiasm, and to release the toxic consequences of hostility, shame, greed, depression, and prolonged fear, anger, and grief.
2. Optimal health is much more than the absence of sickness.
3. Illness is viewed as a manifestation of the whole person, not as an isolated event.
4. MDI's physicians embrace a variety of safe and effective options in diagnosis and treatment, including education for lifestyle changes, methods for self-care, and conventional drugs and surgery.
5. Searching for the underlying cause of disease is preferable to treating symptoms alone.
6. MDI's physicians expend as much effort to establishing what kind of patient has a disease as they do establishing what kind of disease a patient has.
7. Prevention is preferable to treatment and is usually more cost-effective. The most cost-effective approach evokes the patient’s own healing capabilities.
8. A major determinant of healing outcomes is the quality of the relationship established between physician and patient, in which patient autonomy is encouraged.
9. The ideal physician-patient relationship considers the needs, desires, awareness, and insight of the patient as well as those of the physician.
10. Physicians significantly influence patients by their example.
11. Illness, pain, and the dying process can be learning opportunities for patients and physicians.
12. MDI's physicians encourage patients to evoke the healing power of love, hope, humor and enthusiasm, and to release the toxic consequences of hostility, shame, greed, depression, and prolonged fear, anger, and grief.