The feeling I have when walking into a hospital cafeteria to see a number of doctors and nurses drinking cokes is an eerie one & it pretty much illuminates the problem with the mainstream health care system.It still tends to act as though the medical condition exists separately from we put into our bodies, separately from how we interact with our environment.
Meanwhile upstairs, at least on a given day, diabetic patients are eating factory farm hot dogs on a white bun with fruit cup and packs of crackers with hydrogenated oils. While some medical establishments are doing relatively better, and a few are doing a lot better, I have nonetheless been witness to this all too recently.
So often people are being fed agents of the problem & sadly at some point, patients and families are left asking why do these things happen? & when is western medicine going to come up with a cure? (for the very thing it is perpetuating, sometimes creating.)
So often people are being fed agents of the problem & sadly at some point, patients and families are left asking why do these things happen? & when is western medicine going to come up with a cure? (for the very thing it is perpetuating, sometimes creating.)
I'm all for things having meaning on different levels of being, but that doesn't mean I believe we are destined to live out these problems. Bottom line...
Western medicine tends to treat symptoms with one pharmaceutical after another, eventually creating a side effect soup, and then one day it operates & then one day there's nothing it can do.
Western medicine tends to treat symptoms with one pharmaceutical after another, eventually creating a side effect soup, and then one day it operates & then one day there's nothing it can do.
It builds rapport with the patient, because on the surface this appears as success, success, success, success, failure... against a disease, which is regarded as the enemy.
However the symptoms and the diseases themselves are warning signs, often side effects of western diet/western medicine as an ongoing approach to life or at least of impurities in (quick changes to) our shared environment.
So in reality, what is really going on is more like missed signal, missed signal, missed signal, missed signal, failure.
However the symptoms and the diseases themselves are warning signs, often side effects of western diet/western medicine as an ongoing approach to life or at least of impurities in (quick changes to) our shared environment.
So in reality, what is really going on is more like missed signal, missed signal, missed signal, missed signal, failure.
Were the root factors ever addressed? There are many competent doctors and nurses in the context of what western health care is good at such as... emergencies & sparing people pain. That doesn't mean western medicine will be a person's nutritionist or be it's lifestyle coach by default.
Just because it can repair some of your plumbing doesn't grant it access to your whole house. If foods were represented by cardboard boxes and nutrients, vitamins, minerals, etc. were represented by packing peanuts, the institution would be serving empty boxes with a handful of peanuts while trying to take on conditions that warrant, but will not receive, extra peanuts, if that makes any sense.
Just because it can repair some of your plumbing doesn't grant it access to your whole house. If foods were represented by cardboard boxes and nutrients, vitamins, minerals, etc. were represented by packing peanuts, the institution would be serving empty boxes with a handful of peanuts while trying to take on conditions that warrant, but will not receive, extra peanuts, if that makes any sense.
To give it credit, it appears to be evolving, however slowly... for example, it will now administer pro-biotics after anti-biotic treatment. Whether it could have used oregano oil or some appropriate alternative to anti-biotics... or prevented the condition in the first place... is another question. To me the evolution is painfully slow, as I am immersed in that process as many community members choose the western method as a baseline approach.
I still look ahead, ever look forward to it evolving more & taking other modalities more seriously. I would like it's current approach to dissolve almost entirely... reduced to it's solid offering... to become a fringe seldom used, unique circumstances approach... an accident coping mechanism.
Until then, other powerful modalities are out there, but a person has to step away from mom and dad, symbolically speaking, to let other modalities swell past their undervalued framing, shaped by western medicine's limited familiarity with them, and begin a journey.
The cure does not always wear a uniform and it doesn't always offer to be your parent, but sometimes it does I suppose.
This can be difficult when life is hanging in the balance & its easy to understand why people don't move. While I don't have a right, necessarily, to judge anyone's particular circumstance, we all may bear a burden for carelessness & ignorance in a collective system. We are part of a shared environment and thus, on some level, a shared experience with shared results.
I still look ahead, ever look forward to it evolving more & taking other modalities more seriously. I would like it's current approach to dissolve almost entirely... reduced to it's solid offering... to become a fringe seldom used, unique circumstances approach... an accident coping mechanism.
Until then, other powerful modalities are out there, but a person has to step away from mom and dad, symbolically speaking, to let other modalities swell past their undervalued framing, shaped by western medicine's limited familiarity with them, and begin a journey.
The cure does not always wear a uniform and it doesn't always offer to be your parent, but sometimes it does I suppose.
This can be difficult when life is hanging in the balance & its easy to understand why people don't move. While I don't have a right, necessarily, to judge anyone's particular circumstance, we all may bear a burden for carelessness & ignorance in a collective system. We are part of a shared environment and thus, on some level, a shared experience with shared results.
Personally, I would certainly not be willing to invest my trust in western medicine for nutritional guidance, lifestyle guidance or treatment specific to my own constitution, such as that which might be found, for example, in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
I would not necessarily believe it if was said to me that nothing could be done. Even convention knows the power of mind in placebo studies. So here's to a future where holistic modalities & healthy lifestyle eclipse relatively lesser approaches.
There was a study done in which a group of people sat in a circle trying to solve a wildness survival problem. A soft spoken person was actually a wilderness survival expert, but the group listened to the more prominent, extroverted, charismatic individual and did not perform well on the test.
It was not until later, upon watching a film of this exercise... i.e. upon self observation... that the group realized it's own tendencies.
Perhaps it is human to crave this outwardly confident, dominant stature when we don't know the answers, but perhaps the answers lie elsewhere around the table, and we have to be bold enough to turn our heads... in terms of politics, in terms of relationships, in terms of lifestyle, in terms of our survival... in terms of our personal and collective well-being.
I would not necessarily believe it if was said to me that nothing could be done. Even convention knows the power of mind in placebo studies. So here's to a future where holistic modalities & healthy lifestyle eclipse relatively lesser approaches.
There was a study done in which a group of people sat in a circle trying to solve a wildness survival problem. A soft spoken person was actually a wilderness survival expert, but the group listened to the more prominent, extroverted, charismatic individual and did not perform well on the test.
It was not until later, upon watching a film of this exercise... i.e. upon self observation... that the group realized it's own tendencies.
Perhaps it is human to crave this outwardly confident, dominant stature when we don't know the answers, but perhaps the answers lie elsewhere around the table, and we have to be bold enough to turn our heads... in terms of politics, in terms of relationships, in terms of lifestyle, in terms of our survival... in terms of our personal and collective well-being.
Cheers.
(FEB 27, 2014)
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