In hospitals and clinics of the United States, the Reiki is beginning to be accepted like a way significant to improve the care of the patients. In addition, its cost is accessible. More and more clinical and hospitals offer to their patient treatments of Reiki, like complementary care.

Some examples of Reiki in the hospitals
According to Marilyn Fertile valley, private nurse who works in the Otorhinolaryngologic Hospital of New York, “the Reiki accelerates the post-surgical recovery, he improves the mental attitude and he reduces the negative effects of medicines and other medical procedures. Fertile valley, Teacher of Reiki, include the Reiki in its work of nurse. As to the patients they like the Reiki, the voice in the hospital has been run, and other patients require their services, like she leaves from the staff of the hospital. He has realized sessions of Reiki in the Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital, among others to patients who received a marrow transplant. Recognizing the value of the Reiki in the care of the patients, 6 doctors and 25 nurses they have taken classes with her.
Julie Motz, medical instructor of Reiki, have worked next to the Dr. Mehmet Oz, cardiovascular surgeon, in Columbia Medical Presbyterian Center, (New York) during 11 open heart operations and transplants of heart. Their conclusions were that no of the 11 patients dealt with Reiki suffered habitual the post-operative effects like depression, pain or weakness in the legs, and no from which received a transplant rejected the new organ. Also, Julie Motz, used the Reiki in the General Marin Hospital in the outskirts of San Francisco. It worked especially with patients whom they had to happen through a mastectomy.
The Dr. David Guillion, oncology of this hospital, has said: “We must do everything what is to our reach to help the patient. Here a medicine of high level practices, but the treatment is a multidimensional process. Support the idea that the techniques that work with energy can contribute to the treatment.”.
From the month of May 1995, a clinic of Reiki in the Medical Tucson Center of Arizona exists. At the outset, the initiative was accepted only in the wing of oncologycos cares, and the doctors had to give their approval before giving a treatment of Reiki to a patient. Now, the Reiki in many other wings of the hospital practices and are the nurses whom they must make the demand of treatments, without needing the permission of the doctor. To the patients they like the sessions of Reiki and request more. The nurses notice positive effects, in the patients, like: less pain, more relaxation, better dream, better appetite and a greater cooperation of its part.
Regional Portsmouth Hospital of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. An employee of the hospital, Patricia Alandydy, nurse and Teacher of Reiki, introduced the Reiki in this establishment in the spring of 1997 and she is used especially in the surgery area. It initiated twenty people, members of the personnel of the hospital, and during the first six months they gave sessions of Reiki to 400 people. To the patient wishes who it, usually one occurs to a complete session of Reiki the same morning of its entrance and another one to him of 15 - 20 minutes before going to the operating theater. Sometimes, also in the same operating theater.
Since the positive results of the Reiki have been demonstrated, the technique has gained credibility between the doctors of the hospital. At the same time, Patricia Alandydy open a clinic of private Reiki that works twice to the week. It has 17 stretchers of massage and, in spite of the important number of volunteers, there is often waiting list. The patients who come here suffer of AIDS, pains, indirect effect of the chemotherapy or x-ray, etc… The patients come by themselves or the doctors command to them.
The Medical Center of the Pacific (Californian Medical Pacific Center), one of the greatest hospitals of the north of California, includes a Clinic of Health and Sanación (Health and Healing Clinic) where they are used a great variety of complementary techniques: reiki, Chinese medicine, biofeedback, acupuncture, homeopathy, phytotherapy, and aromatherapy.
The Dr. Mike Cantwell, paediatrician specialized in infectious diseases and Teacher of Reiki, give a session that can last of one to three hours and, later derives to the patient another medical instructor from Reiki that continues with the sessions outside the hospital. To the patients who respond favorably it suggests to them take a course to be able to use Reiki on themselves. The Dr. Cantwell says: “The Reiki is very effective for acute ailments, such as bony and muscular pains and wounds, headaches, acute infections and asthma. Also, he is very useful for the patients who suffer chronic diseases generally, and especially for that suffer chronic pains.”.

Other doctors and nurses who use Reiki
Mary Lee Radka, nurse and Teacher of Reiki, dictates courses of Reiki for the medical personnel in the Hospital of the University of Michigan (University of Michigan Hospital) of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Nancy That, medical and Masterful of Reiki, uses the Reiki frequently when she works in emergencies in the Foote hospital, in Jackson, Michigan. In this hospital there are at least other 5 doctors who are Masterful of Reiki and many initiated nurses.
Libby Barnett and Maggie Chambers, Teachers of Reiki, have already distributed courses of Reiki in a dozen of hospitals of the New England (New England). They suggest to create rooms of Reiki, where the personnel of the hospital and the patients can receive sessions they wish when it. Bettina Peyton, medical enabled by Libby and Maggie, says: “The extraordinary simplicity of the Reiki and its potentially powerful effects, force to us to accept the concept of a universal energy of treatment.”.
This is only one part of one long list of medical instructors of Reiki, doctors and personnel of hospitals, that use the Reiki in traditional medical establishments of the United States.

Axel Makaroff