Why
a New kind of Medicine?
Medicine
reached a conceptual impasse. It lacks a consistent theory which accounts
for three characteristics of the organism:
Physicians
always appreciated these characteristics and adhered therefore to the following
principles:
Modern
medicine attributes these rules
to ignorance, and calls ancient
medicine "Placebo Medicine". Yet history teaches that ancient doctors were competent and successful. They knew
how to exploit the self-healing capacity of the organism.
Modern
medicine ignores the fact that most diseases are more or less self-healing.
Sophisticated equipment reveals structural details which confuse the physician.
Technology lets physicians to meddle in processes whose intricacy they barely
understand. In order to resolve
this confusion, medicine tries to deduce function from structure. Which is
hopeless since structures (functions), interact. More,
they interact optimally. This optimality notion sounds to the
modern physician bizarre and esoteric, and yet it is essential for a proper
treatment.
How might one explain to physicians a concept which they never encountered?
I decided to apply the Wisdom of the Body (WOB) metaphor and
show how it optimizes.
It is a new and important dimension of treatment.