My new passion or I should say our new passion (Peter is my partner in this new love) has been history - specifically English - Tudor History. A subject that I really wasnt familar with, but still there was something romantic, interesting and curious about that time period. Therefore my inner Madame emerged.
Boomer: That part is easy. We are now the largest population in the U.S. - the baby boomers. Now a young senior citizen (although my husband refuses to admit and gets very embarrased when I ask for the senior discounts) we have issues that sometimes are not addressed. One of them being, health care for women. Although this subject material is much improved and also not as skewed as it used to be, there is much information that may not be clear or as individualized as it should be.
The thing that I have found is that our modern medicine and diagnostic tools compartmentalizes symptoms and diseases so much that we treat each symptom and not very much the disease. And then again we are so much more knowledgeable than we were even 20 years ago, we have discovered new defects, gene disorders, chemical malfuctions, illnesses, virus, syndromes and diseases. And because we are so specialized in our treatment (your G.P. sends yo to the dermatologists who refers you to the orthopedic who may send you to a shrink), sometimes the whole is lost in the parts.
There are many ways to look at the whole. Oriental Medicine focuses on the whole body, the energy of the body and the function of the body as one. The treatment of the body as a whole is certainly an option. However, if in western medicine we look at the body as a whole, we see overlapping functions, disfunctions, side effects, and comorbidities. How can that be dissected? Western Medicine certainly tries - so we can be compartmentalized and treated.
So where do we go from here? I can speak Chinese!
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