it wouldn't be the first time

[Guest guest]

from http://www.foresight.org/EOC/EOC_Chapter_9.html

 

In an article entitled " Basic Medical Research: A Long-Term

Investment " in MIT's Technology Review, Dr. Lewis Thomas wrote: " Forty

years ago, just before the profession underwent transformation from an

art to science and technology, it was taken for granted that the

medicine we were being taught was precisely the medicine that would be

with us for most of our lives. If anyone had tried to tell us that the

power to control bacterial infections was just around the corner, that

open-heart surgery or kidney transplants would be possible within a

couple of decades, that some kinds of cancer could be cured by

chemotherapy, and that we would soon be within reach of a

comprehensive, biochemical explanation for genetics and genetically

determined diseases, we would have reacted in blank disbelief. We had

no reason to believe that medicine would ever change.... What this

recollection suggests is that we should keep our minds wide open in the

future. "

 

 

 

Chinese Herbs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Something gained, something lost.

 

While no one can dispute the major advances in medical technology,

especially in surgery, it is precisely the loss of the ART of medicine

that is a significant problem. Chinese medicine is still largely an

art, and this is what has attracted many of us to its practice in the

first place.

 

 

On Apr 19, 2005, at 4:34 PM, wrote:

 

> In an article entitled " Basic Medical Research: A Long-Term

> Investment " in MIT's Technology Review, Dr. Lewis Thomas wrote: " Forty

> years ago, just before the profession underwent transformation from an

> art to science and technology, it was taken for granted that the

> medicine we were being taught was precisely the medicine that would be

> with us for most of our lives.