I'm never dressed in white.
I stick to scientific facts as much as I can.
But.....
In matters of life and death, suffering and solace, we dearly need Sjamans, we trust.
And I try to be one , as well.
Greetings
Gerard
At 22:39 -0000 27-09-1998, Julian Bradley wrote:
>Reading the NHS IM&T strategy reminded me of some sci-fi I read a long time
>ago. The basic point was that if we were bombarded with other peoples
>uncensored thoughts life would be unbearably awful.
>
>Part of a doctor's job has always been to give patients information in a
>way appropriate to that patient.
>
>Now, open access information is going to bombard patients with data in an
>increasingly uncontrolled way. Sometimes they will get it automatically
>(pack inserts with drugs), sometimes they will have requested it (but may
>not like or want the answer), and sometimes their relatives and friends
>will bombard them.
>
>I could say I regret this but I guess that's irrelevant. It's been
>happening more and more for some time and already been making life more
>challenging. It's going to grow and grow and because there are some
>advantages, and many good reasons to avoid censorship, there's no way to
>halt it or slow it.
>
>What I cannot imagine is how to doctor as this comes about. Is the
>demystification of medicine a significant part of the reason people are
>turning to alternative practitioners? Am I alone in thinking that many
>(but not all) of our patients need to be able to turn to someone who knows
>what they do not know, perhaps even what they cannot imagine themselves
>knowing?
>
>Perhaps as KT might say it's just that it's late and Monday morning draws
>near.
>
>
>JB
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