Misunderstanding Our Patients
There is a tendency among some health care professionals to believe that a patient is “making up symptoms” or is mentally unstable when the patient presents with a problem for which the doctor has no answer. If the tests for a particular ailment show no signs of disease, then the pain that the patient is feeling is exaggerated or simply made up for attention or pain medication. Most allopathic health care providers do not consider that there may be other ways of viewing a physical problem that is outside western scientific thought. Nor do they consider that the western medical paradigm has some blind spots that prevent them from seeing what is really going on. Whenever a patient arrives with a very thick file and a plethora of different problems and disorders, does the provider pause to ask what is the underlying cause of all of these illnesses or do they just treat the problem at hand?
If we accept that we have a physical body, a psyche or emotional body, and an energy body, then it is important to consider how these three bodies interact and impact one other. One of the reasons that we such high medical costs is that rarely do we consider how the emotional and physical bodies impacts our health and well being. Most hospitals have mind body programs, which acknowledge the impact that the mind has on our ability to heal, but they do not put the same focus on how unresolved emotional issues may cause the body to become ill nor how toxic energy is stored in the body. All too often allopathic health care does not probe all the necessary levels to determine the underlying reasons for chronic or serial illness. And all too often patients leave their doctors feeling misunderstood, uncared for, and frustrated.
# Other reasons that our health care costs are so high is that we have a for profit system that is controlled by the insurance and pharmaceutical companies and we have a system of re-imbursement that rewards tests and procedural over promoting health and well being.
