Guest guest Posted July 28, 2003 Report Share Posted July 28, 2003 > I'm think that Ken would agree that it often leads to a great life just not a guarantee of a good living. > I hate to be the one to break the > news, but having an LAc is not > a guarantee of the good life. > Emmanuel: As I often tell my students, " We treat happiness. (and lack of it) " doug > The whole business of > What I/we all see from the patient's side many times is that they come > to us precisely because we are not the Western paradigm. We offer them > a way out of the " alienation of health " where their lab tests are more > important than them. Eventually, the candles and little shrines may > seem superfluous to the experienced practitioner but to many patients > these artifacts of Eastern thought it is a dream space beyond the > prison of (Western) rationality. For those with " definable " diseases, > (i.e. diabetes, hepatitis, high blood pressure) we risk perpetuating > schizophrenia in the patient when take the lab tests as important as > their Western doc. Don't get me wrong (!), I'm all for curing diseases > by any means necessary, right on!) but just putting a word in for the > shaman vote out there. > doug > > Doug, I agree wholeheartedly. I left medical school in the 3rd year > and went into basic sciences and began teaching because I thought I > could make a difference in that realm. I felt I was becoming an agent > of the problem in medical school. There may well be an enlightened > cohort of researchers out there who may be guided by larger prinicples > in their work and less guided by needing to publish the next paper and > find a product for the industry. > > Emmanuel Segmen > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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