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The Bottom Line…

The landscape of the US healthcare system has changed radically in the past 25 years. I remember the days when I followed my father around when he was making rounds to checkup on his patients. There was actual interaction between him and the patient. What do I mean by this? My father actually spent time with the patient going over the present treatment plan and then discussing the future treatment options.

 

You don’t see this type of doctor/patient relationship in the current US healthcare system. Today, the patient is looked upon as merely a commodity and the hospital administrators just want to optimize their bottom line. I frequently ask my current Western medical colleagues about their relationship with their patients. Most tell me that there really isn’t one.

 

They tell me that the most communication comes between the doctor ho serves as the care coordinator. Often, this role is fulfilled by a nurse practitioner, especially in outpatient settings. However, even here, the doctor or nurse rarely forms the type of relationship my father did when he treated his patients. My doctor colleagues tell me that thy just do what they are asked and will see the patient when it is their time to do so.

 

Is it me or does the patient present like a car bring worked on in a car service shop? I have experienced car service men who look for ways to increase their bottom line by way of charging for parts that are needed etc… My point is that the patient in today’s healthcare is becoming a commodity.

 

To today’s healthcare professional, integration means the ways to increase the bottom line to the “corporates”. Unfortunately, it does not mean to optimize the care that the patient receives. I long back to the years when I witnessed the true compassion shared in my father’s relationship with his patients.

The effects of the COVID virus is being felt in the healthcare community, in a big way. I’m sure that this is not a revelation to most of you. However, I’m also confident that most of you are not appreciating just how the manner in treating patients is being affected.

 

As I have explained before, what makes TCM so unique is the natural manner that a practitioner uses to both diagnose and treat. What I mean by natural is how TCM practitioner uses his own senses, such as touch and feel, as instruments to treat a patient. With the advent of policies such as wearing masks/face shields or the need now to perform temperature checks on every patient has definitely altered the pristine nature of the treatment. Yes, I am speaking from personal experience of my current treatment of patients.

 

However, as with any factor that causes such a change to society, there are avenues by which members of society can help to curb the intensity of these effects. Most of you appreciate that COVID is a virus and thus there are symptoms that are associated with it, as with any other virus like the flu. The Western medical community naturally looks to treat such a virus, like COVID, by finding artificial means.

 

What do I mean by artificial means? If you are keeping up with the Western medical establishment’s response, you should be realizing that they feel that a vaccine is the surest way to combat the virus. They push this vaccine without listing the ingredients in the vaccine and publishing any trials that this vaccine is going through. However, what is most pertinent to this blog is their lack of acknowledging the natural means that are effective in treating, at the very least, the symptoms of the virus.

 

In the next blog, I will address how certain TCM protocols are very effective in treating COVID symptoms…

 
 
 

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