What Medicine Has Forgotten…

Something's been on my mind lately, and I wanted to share it with you all:

What is it that really plagues the medical field today? What makes the medical field so endlessly incapable of truly healing, rather than just keeping people locked into a self-perpetuating system?

It's not *really* about private certification monopolization (though that's a big part), nor is it the excessive power wielded by insurance agencies and pharmaceutical companies over the decision-making of individual physicians (though that's also extremely important)...

It's really about humility.

Modern medicine has lost its humility.

I wrote about this a while back in my book Naïve Expertise (You don't have to buy it; I just wanted to share a small passage that feels even more relevant today):

Never learn from the “experts.”

Learn from beginners, only. They are those whose perspective is wide enough that they’re at least cognizant of the vastness—nay, incredible infinity—of the material relative to their finitude...

... [and] lastly, remember that there’s one thing even worse than falling victim to the “experts.” And that’s claiming to be an expert yourself.

That's not to dismiss the importance of true expertise. We need knowledge and training.

But it's just that physicians, medical boards, research organizations... the whole gamut:

They've got to realize that what they think they know is emphatically *not* all that there is to know!

Health goes far beyond the bounds of their individual experiences--or really the experience of modern medicine as a whole.

It's a human endeavor. An endless human endeavor.

And for health to be a human endeavor requires that our *healers* (who are doctors are supposed to be) understand that the thing that we call a human "being" is not just the human "body."

You can't heal human beings by purely addressing human bodies.