As a healthcare
provider, a patient, a family member and loved one, I try to view all
sides of how a person decides to treat, heal or cure an ailment. If the
treatment is effective with minimal to no side effects, then it is
hailed a success; even if the real success was more attributable to the
innate healing nature of the patient’s body. Thankfully science
definitely plays a role in the identification of assistive and
supportive measures found in medicine of all types and philosophies. It
is important to understand the majority of interventions of healthcare
are really meant to be supportive of the body’s innate healing. Things
like medications, healthy lifestyle choices, and stress management are
meant to help support and maintain the body’s balance of homeostasis. As
a healthcare provider, it is important that my decisions and
recommendations of care of my patients are based in science and also
driven by the patient’s beliefs and definitions of what health and
wellness are.
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