In message <[log in to unmask]> Leonard P wrote:
> Am I the only one out there who finds the use of healers by registered
> doctors distasteful?
Maybe.
I think 'distasteful' might be an inappropriate choice.
What *I* find a little distasteful is the modern assumption that the
remit of the NHS GP is the holistic care of the patient.
'Holistic', as we are forever being reminded, means something like
total care, encompassing matters of the spirit, soul, emotions,
psyche, physical, social, ego, id, super-ego, inner child, inner
demons, etc (and so on).
What kind of responsibility is this? What hope is there of ever
achieving 'health' in all these areas. You can *never* win at this
game. We could train ourselves to not use 'cure' as a marker but
that is increasingly inappropriate in the 90s.
And we've brought this upon ourselves, largely.
I reckon we should get a bloody big felt-tip marker and draw a
well-defined ring around the services we offer.
I have nothing against healing and the myriad other
alternative/complementary/whacko therapies. Just don't ask me to
practice them, don't criticise me for not caring about them, and
accept me as a practitioner of allopathic medicine without
prejudice.
Cripes! I should start writing speeches for politicians.
(How to bring down a political party in one easy lesson).
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