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Healthcare Changes:
How does the song go? You know the one by Bob Dylan that says “the times they are a changing..” There is a slow but quickening interest in ancient healing modalities. Our current healthcare system is excellent. We are so lucky to have expert physicians, physician assistants, nurses, therapists, nurse’s aides and others supporting our healthcare system. As our healthcare system continually evolves, there is an interest to combine the best of all practices. Combining the best of western medicine with eastern medicine. Combining the best of …show more content…
life expectancy, patient’s personal interest for alternatives and many more. Too many to articulate here.
What changes when the healthcare system adopts ancient healing modalities?
The best part of working with the ancient healing modalities is the opportunity to get back to individualized care. Working with the patient or client in a partnership for their health and wholeness. The practitioner is no longer dictating the next steps but rather it is a joint process with the patient actively involved in their healing too.
With each individual person, healthcare practitioners and providers will be responsible for working with the entirety of the individual. That will require a more complete picture of the person – evaluating the body-mind-emotion-spiritual considerations. The person will no longer be evaluated for just the physical symptom, but rather in a larger context of their overall health and wellness.
This approach has been known for years as the holistic approach or integrative