Directions in Health Care and Healing: Liberation Cosmology
Posted in Health on 01/06/2010 01:31 pm by adminI wanted to take some time at the beginning of this year to share some of my own thoughts about medicine, healing, and health care. Outside of my radio intros I have not put anything in print since last January’s letter to Obama.
The easy part of this commentary is the health care piece. Health care for working people is abominable, this being the case for overwhelming majority of the American population whether you can afford it or not. And many times you really don’t realize this until you are sick and have to interface with the health care system on any consistent basis. If your problem fits neatly into modern medicine’s conceptualization of what is going on with you then you may get thru the system unscathed and even recover your health. But this is not the rule. Being medicated is not the same as being healed. Your options become really limited unless you spend disposable income. Yet your premiums are going up.
Beyond the administrative and financial headaches the real question is what is the intention of your practitioner and the health care system as a whole and how is your problem being conceptualized. Are you someone to be fit into a protocol or is something being designed for you during that five to ten minutes that you are with your doctor. In modern medicine you are working in a closed solution set dictated by the pharmaceutical and insurance industries….not by science. Much of what goes on in medical practice is by way of convention and not the hard science that is constantly being referenced. Your doctor may not have any training in nutrition or any other modality other than making a pathology diagnosis and prescribing drugs. Who would want to be in this situation?
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