In my opinion, it is time for Western Medicine to be exposed to Eastern Medical theory and practices. There is a vast wealth of knowledge within Chinese and East Indian Ayurveda Medicine and I feel medical students should have required hours in these subjects.
Western Medical schools, I feel are still strongly patriarchal, fear based, controlling, and extremely mental in their approach. While it is important to be very meticulous and thorough in Medicine, sometimes seconds count in saving lives and so on, I feel that the softer side of Medicine is largely buried and under emphasized.
Students are rigorously and quickly run through many medical subjects, over short periods of time regurgitating memorized facts, figures, data and so on and then have to perform from what they learn on many psychologically demanding clinical rotations and rounds. They then graduate and enter a difficult and sometimes vicious world of hospitals, clinics and many dead end jobs that result in running a hamster wheel of high volume of patients through a series of tests, diagnoses, medications and treatments in very short periods of time without dealing with the spiritual, emotional, and mental needs of patients in any real or practical manner.
What is missing in Western Medicine is the return of the Divine Feminine..a slower, deeper, more understanding approach that deals with nurturing, emotions, empathy, many forms of subtle and overt healing practices of body and mind and helping understanding the underlying energy balance inside the body that is producing a set of symptoms.
Western medicine is completely brainwashed into quick fixes, fueled by insurance companies and financial burdens that constantly influence quality of care at the minimum of what can be gotten away with.
I am not arguing at all that Western Medicine is vastly important of course to treat, diagnose, and manage and so on for all ailments--there is no doubt. But, I feel Western Medical students and residents get lost and caught in figures, facts and procedures and do not dive deeper into the realm of the actual life force, the treatment of various energies of the body, the understanding of the subtle nature of the bodies and the interesting treatments to help with ailments from a different approach that the East offers.
And I feel that medical students and residents should practice any form of deeper spirituality along with medicine---and practice holistic methods for themselves as they apply them to the patient population at large as well. This is all part of what I call "enlightened medicine....." and is part of "doctor heal thyself......"
Most if not all of the history of Medicine in schools and residencies is quoted from ancient Rome and Greece, when in fact many ideas were borrowed from the East. There is a vast body of literature from the East on Medicine that is largely still untapped and ignored by Western Medical schools.
In fact, many of the Eastern Masters were enlightened beings, the caduceus was borrowed from the East to represent the Kundalini energy: the powerful hidden coiled energy inside each person that when awakened affords natural meditation, expanded states of consciousness as well as spontaneous energy healing of disease states----all mostly not understood nor practiced in the heart of Western Medicine.
Eastern Medicine deals with energy and function of the body, and actual consciousness that pervades the body. It has many protocols and practices in preventive care and also to alleviate and balance various energies that manifest as symptoms rather than just finding a symptom and masking it with knee jerk medicines that many students and residents automatically prescribe. It has many, many herbal protocols that are only recently being understood by the West----powerful knowledge that was obtained from deep meditation and intuition on the nature of plants and herbs and their potent effect on the human body, mind and Spirit.
The new model in the 21 st century must thus in my opinion form a harmonious marriage between East and West and I feel that a portion of medical school and residency should teach mandatory subjects in Eastern Medicine as well.
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