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Welcome to attentive medicine – a reflective way of approaching illness
through observation, listening, and questioning.
Explore the cause – not just relieve the symptom – for lasting results
Explore the cause – not just relieve the symptom – for lasting results
Dr. Fatou Mbow, family doctor and founder of attentive medicine, offers a space where your symptoms are not just treated – as conventional medicine often does – but deeply understood.
Through careful observation, listening, and questioning, we explore the vital relationships and imbalances behind the changes in your body.
No tests, no diagnosis, no prescriptions – only space for your vital energy to return through greater clarity and presence.
What attentive medicine explores
Conventional medicine is excellent at removing symptoms – chemically, surgically, or through physical treatments.
But how long does relief last? A day, a few months, sometimes longer – often with side effects, complications, or dependence.
In urgent situations, conventional medicine excels – swift technical intervention saves lives. Yet for recurrent or chronic conditions, the deeper challenge is not only how to reverse a change, but why it occurred.
Even in acute illness, we might ask: why this illness, in this body, at this moment?
This is what attentive medicine explores. Through observation, listening, and careful questioning, we uncover the underlying relationships or habits that contributed to the change – why they persist, and what may support lasting health.
I have explored this approach as a doctor in clinical, research, and humanitarian settings. In attentive medicine consultations, we work together to understand why your body has changed and what might restore its natural functioning.
🌱 Three guiding ideas in attentive medicine
• Health is the silence of the organs.
• Disease is the body’s signal of lost vital energy. This differs from the absence or loss of certain functions – such as being deaf, blind, or experiencing functional changes with age. One may not express a function and still remain entirely vital.
• Health depends on correct, healthy vital relationships – with air (breathing, sweating), food (eating), water (drinking), shelter (clothing, housing), soil (urination, defecation, menstruation), and our inner truth.
Any disruption – conscious or unconscious – affects vitality. The body responds quietly through subtle sensations, or loudly through pain, fatigue, or illness, to restore harmony.
We do not diagnose, prescribe, or run tests – conventional medicine already does that.
We observe, listen, and question attentively, exploring the whole rather than the parts.
Instead of asking ‘How do we remove the change?’, we ask ‘What made the body change?’ – opening space for the body’s own intelligence to act, often in ways symptom-focused care misses.
A symptom is not an error, but the expression of an altered vital relationship.
The Attentive Medicine booklet presents this approach as I live and practise it.
Neither an alternative nor an opposition to conventional medicine it opens a dimension often overlooked – the search to understand the meaning of bodily change before intervening.
📖 Read the booklet online
(Also available in French and in Italian.)
Recognised in medical dialogue – The BMJ
What patients say
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🗣️ “This was an illuminating exchange… What I take with me is the delicate task… Thank you again.”
– Anonymous, July 2025
🗣️ “Thank you, Fatou, for your benevolent attention. I would like to continue…”
– Anonymous, August 2025
Within families, trust in attentive medicine is passed on – expressing respect for a family medicine that is open and holistic.
🗣️ “Hello Fatou, I’m coming on behalf of my mother… I would like to make an appointment with you.”
🗣️ “I got your contact details from my sister-in-law. I would like to book an appointment for an attentive medicine session.”
🗣️ “Good morning, I am the daughter of … and I would like to make an appointment.”
– Anonymous, August – September 2025
Introducing Attentive Medicine – a short video
In this short video, I share what attentive medicine is, why I created it, and how it complements conventional medicine by asking a simple but fundamental question :
What made the body change – in this particular way, at this particular time, in this particular person?
If you prefer, this presentation is also available in French and Italian.
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