Table 1.

Research Interview Questionnaire

  1. From your experience, how do you define healing?

  2. Would you describe what you believe occurs in healing?

  3. Looking back over your life from childhood to the present, can you think of a particular experience that has greatly influenced the way you consider, feel, or act regarding healing or the function of healing within medical practice?

  4. Would you share a personally profound experience of healing in which you were involved as a physician?

  5. In your experience, what makes an individual a healer?

  6. What recommendations do you have for educating and training allopathic physicians to be healers?