Today, I want to show you how you can best utilise the various healthcare and sickcare practitioners around you, so that you may never grow frustrated with them, and so that you may live longer and better.
I've on repeated occasions drawn attention to various shortfalls of classical care. You may thus think, that I'm critical of classical care, and I think it may surprise you, that I'm not at all critical of classical care.
How does that make sense? Drawing attention to the shortfalls of classical care seems like it would make me implicitly critical of classical care, but it need not.
I've in the past drawn attention to the fact, that classical care has yet to integrate the newest scientific findings, and that classical care is ill-equipped to resolve chronic ailments. Furthermore, classical care has been unable to remedy the chronic tonsilitis (chronic inflammation of the tonsils) of a friend of mine close enough to me as to count as a brother.
This may seem quite critical of classical care, but let me give you an example to illustrate why it absolutely isn't.
If I complained to you, that my butcher can't make me an oaken table, or that my carpenter hasn't been able to procure me a fantastic steak, would you take that as criticism of my butcher and carpenter, or would you perhaps question my sanity and mental faculty?
I think it would be the latter. That is also the correct response.
The same is true for classical care and classically trained physicians and nurses. Me saying, that there are things beyond the scope of classical care, is decidedly not me complaining about classical care. Rather, it's me drawing attention to the fact, that a butcher won't make you a sturdy table, and that a carpenter won't give you a delicious steak. If anything, my calling attention of the 'shortfalls' of classical care is more about delineating the limitations of it, rather than criticising what it does.
If I break my leg, you best believe, I'll seek out a classically trained surgeon to set it right and put a cast on it. This is like me going to the butcher for a steak. This makes sense.
If I on the other hand sustain a stuck spinal joint, I'll seek out a competent osteopath, not a classically trained surgeon. This is me going to the carpenter for a table. This also makes sense.
If I were to switch these around, the sense would leave both scenarios. It makes no sense for me to go to an osteopath for a broken leg or to a surgeon for a stuck spinal joint.
And this brings me back to my defence of classical care. I think classical care is fantastic at those things it's made for. Primarily, classical physicians and nurses are trained to handle a broken limb, acute hypertension, headaches, a viral or bacterial infection, or similar acute problems. They aren't trained to peruse scientific literature and monitor it for new developments, which they could use to improve patient outcomes, nor are they trained particularly to deal with chronic ailments or questions of nutrition.
My drawing attention to the limitation of classical care should thus never be construed as critique of our classical physicians and nurses and the life-saving work they do. Rather, it's meant to relieve them of solving problems they haven't been trained to handle, and which we unjustly expect them to be able to fix. Classical physicians and nurses are extremely good at fulfilling their role. Problematic is only our overblown expectations of them.
So, here's my appellation: Thank your classical physicians and nurses for their competence, just as you'd thank your butcher for a good steak, but don't criticise your classical physicians and nurses for their lack of training, just as you wouldn't ask your butcher for an oaken table.
Sanity is understanding the limits of reality.
Use healthcare and sickcare practitioners for that, which they are competent in. This will prolong and improve your life significantly. Plus, it will quite drastically minimise your potential future frustrations with aspects of healthcare and sickcare.
Let the butcher give you a steak and the carpenter give you a table.
Let you classical physicians and nurses do what they're best at.
Swift healing and lasting health to you.
God bless,
Merlin
