The good news about life is that our bodies are made to HEAL. The bad news is that sometimes they get overwhelmed, confused, or just distracted from doing so. Indeed, one of the nearly universal features of all diseases and injuries is that they SLOW US DOWN. If we can’t project nearly as much intention … Continue reading “Three Types of Health Care”
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- Re-framing Health Care for Society
- The Art of Acupuncture (and CM)
- The Spirit of the Neijing
- The Theory and Practice of Disease Reversion (Accumulation Theory)
After more than a year of discussions and widespread contention, we appear on the cusp of health insurance reform. Our society may benefit from such reforms, or as others fear, they may undermine the virtues of our current health care system and damage our economy. Interesting and compelling as that debate may appear, it is … Continue reading “Will We Get True Health Care Reform?”
I ran into an old friend at the grocery store a couple days ago. We greeted each other warmly, after not seeing each other for several years. Matt is a medical doctor, specifically a radiologist, who was one of few medical professionals in our small rural California town to accept my efforts practicing Chinese medicine … Continue reading “Is Health Care Against Society?”
A few weeks ago, I taught a weekend continuing education seminar for acupuncturists on the channel divergences, which have central importance for both understanding and reversing progressive and degenerative disease. Early in that seminar, I posed the following question, which I believe lay deep in the soul of many health care practitioners: Do you want … Continue reading “Practicing Health Care”
The Problem with Health Care is the Pervasive Fantasy that We Can Treat It as a Consumer Good! Health and healing are not consumer goods. Why would one think we could treat health care as one? If consuming health care actually made people healthier, there could never be enough. Our society would have to ration … Continue reading “Health Care: NOT Just a Funding Challenge”
Each person is an embodied spirit (jīngshén (精神)), who lives through interacting with the world. Those interactions are polar, as individuals take in various influences from the world and release byproducts of their life process back out to the world. Breathing is one such interaction; it provides the source of being. Each individual’s quest for … Continue reading “Human Life: It’s NOT Just Physical”
Passive care is ANY form of health care where the patient is a passive consumer of a good or service. That might be a pharmaceutical medicine, surgery, joint or other physical manipulation, dietary supplement, or any other consumption-based attempt to improve your health. Let me be very clear: I do NOT consider this a problem … Continue reading “Passive Health Care Breeds Dependence”