Medicine, Christianity and our health and healing
Español: Imagen del Mercado Medieval Tres Culturas, celebrado en Aranda de Duero del 13 al 15 de marzo de 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Conventional Western medicine fails miserably at considering this holistic view . So engrossed with what can be numerically measured and scientifically proven, it often neglects the human spirit, treating patients as bundles of body parts and malfunctioning cells sitting in an isolated exam room. To be sure, there are individual doctors whose compassion and care challenge the system, but as a whole the system leaves little room for the time and heart it takes to treat patients holistically. There is no doubt that the advances of modern medicine have vastly improved our quality of life and life span. I worry, however,that Western medicine itself can become idolatrous if it causes us to rely solely on scientific certainty and our own ability to master the human body instead of humbly admitting that we don't know and can't fix everything...