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What the 'bleep' are we being told?
Health Service or Sickness Service?? |
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A medicine of sicknessThe systems that we describe as ones of health are, in fact, systems of sickness. There is simply no other word for it. We practice a medicine of sickness which: ·
Is only concerned with sickness, not health ·
Recognises only the existence of the body ·
Treats the symptoms, not the cause ·
Keeps the patients in the dark and dependent
‘Western medicine leaves a vast area that is badly taught, poorly understood and indeed almost ignored by modern Western medicine – the Mind, the soul and the spirit. So badly have most doctors been Trained in this area that they can’t even recognise the Malfunction of the mind, soul or spirit when it stares them in the Face, and if they did, most of them wouldn’t be adequately Trained to cope with it. Alternative medicine: a guide to natural therapies By A. Stanway.
…….Furthermore, as technological medicine advances, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that ‘the more we learn about the technical craft of saving physical life, the less we seem to care about the human art of caring about the person.’ Pain for example, is one of the most common symptoms that doctors have to deal with. It is a complex biopsychosocial phenomenon, extensively as a physical condition. There is teaching on pain in only four of the twenty-one medical schools in Britain and even where it is taught it is covered in an average of 3.5 hours of a five-year medical degree course……..
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