First it was colic perhaps accompanied by rashes and alternating diarrhea and constipation. Then came the upper respiratory chest infections which “required” antibiotics. The chest infections were then followed by ear infections which “required” more antibiotics---do you see a progression here?
Warning! Medical doctors are not trained to see the Comprehensive Whole! What they are trained to do is to see The Whole in “fragments” or symptoms. They see one fragment in the form of colic, then another fragment in the form of rashes. Then if these fragments or symptoms abate and another entirely new set of symptoms appear, they don’t make the connection between the first set of symptoms and the second.
It is extremely important for you as a parent to understand what is happening here. Doctors are human, and like all humans, they are susceptible to systemic conditioning. That is, they only know what they are taught. And because of the emphasis in our society on conformity through threat and punishment, it can be very difficult for a doctor to think outside the box.
This concept of “systemic conditioning” is extremely important for all of us to understand.
Basically it means groups of humans repeating the same patterns of behavior over and over again based on the social environment they have been exposed to. We see this in how we can be conditioned to identify ourselves with a particular nation, religion, race, ethnicity, belief system, and so on. Medicine is no different than that!
Medicine (and science) has fallen into the trap of a belief system based on knowledge and experience, where the emphasis is on, ‘what is known’ at the expense of, ‘the unknown’. Of course, there are deep psychological reasons for this---and in fact, the same reasons that underlie the decay in medicine underlie the decay in our civilization as a whole.
Stay tuned for part 2.
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