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S.G.V. EXAMINER
Creating the Right Environment for Health
Would practicing alternative
medicine allow her to spend
more time with patients and,
thus, lead to an environment
more conducive to healing?
This final question came
from a young lawyer turned
physician who, like me, attended
a recent RAND Corporation
meeting on alternative
health care. It really spoke to
the heart of the conversation
that night and what both physicians
and patients are seeking
today - a better environment
for health and healing.
Everywhere we look (or
read), scientists, physicians,
researchers, even the man on
the street are discussing new
insights regarding what provides
the best health care. It's
the man/woman on the street
(the public), in fact, that is
showing the most interest in
integrative - i.e. integrating a
variety of "alternative" methodologies
with allopathic treat-
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According to David Freedman
in a 2011 Atlantic article,
"Medicine has long decried
acupuncture, homeopathy, and
the like as dangerous nonsense….
But now many doctors
admit that alternative
medicine often seems to do a
better job of making patients
well, and at a much lower cost,
than mainstream care - and
they're trying to learn from it."
Because of this change in
thinking, there are a growing
number of physicians around
the country who are researching
alternative health care environments
and including alternative
medicine treatments.
Freedman discusses a couple
of prominent physicians who
are seeing this change in thinking
first hand. In addition, Jay
Perman, President of the University
of Maryland at Baltimore,
and a practicing pediatrician
states, "We're taught to
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make a diagnosis, prescribe a
therapy, and then we're done.
But we're not done. The
patient's environment matters.
When it comes to alternative
medicine, it's not clear what the
mechanism is that can make it
helpful to patients, but it may
be that it helps create the 'right'
environment."
More and more evidence
suggests that this right environment
may be created by addressing
a patient's spiritual
needs.
In addressing the spiritual
needs of individuals, Mary
Baker Eddy, a 19th century author
concerned with health, advocated
the use of prayer to
address the needs of the entire
individual - mind, body, and
soul. After years of use and
study of the wide variety of
treatments available in her day,
she found it crucial to producing
the right environment for
health. Her methodologies and
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the results in her day are recorded
in her book, Science
and Health.
Today, finding ways to create
the right environment for
health and healing includes -
among other changes - everything
from increasing doctorpatient
communication, to putting
decisions and choices
firmly in the hands of the patient,
to including a patient's
spiritual practices in their treatment.
And health practitioners
are finding these changes improve
patient outcomes.
In the search for health, the
physician should acknowledge
their patient's spiritual mindfulness
practices, creating an environment
where health has
the best possibility of occurring.
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