| "The art of (modern) medicine consists of | | | | meantime, the patients suffer and pay a high |
| amusing the patient while Nature cures the | | | | price, only because of the insensitivity of the |
| disease." -- Voltaire | | | | "experts" who claim to have their best interests |
| The Challenge | | | | at heart. |
| As the world and its diseases become more | | | | I must also at this point commend greatly, those |
| complex and multifarious, so the life-works of any | | | | physicians on both sides of the divide who have |
| Physician become more challenging. Challenging in | | | | taken the very bold and brave steps to ensure |
| the sense that various factors including | | | | that some form of integration and cooperation |
| information regarding new or old disease | | | | exists between healthcare providers, regardless |
| phenomena he or she has to deal with may either | | | | of their system or branch of medical practice. |
| be scanty, not readily available or continually | | | | And this they have done very successfully |
| changing. | | | | without compromising standards or jeopardizing |
| To be successful, a physician (or doctor) must | | | | their own practice. That is how it should be. |
| therefore be factual, realistic and honest, | | | | Physicians, Doctors or Healthcare Providers or |
| objective and rational, investigative, open-minded, | | | | Healers, whatever their branch of Medicine, should |
| creative, dynamic, versatile, enterprising, | | | | emulate the example of the genuinely, honest, |
| resourceful, strong-willed and productive. In | | | | truly wealthy people who are naturally creative |
| essence, he or she must be able to create | | | | problem-solvers and workaholics. |
| positive health values, by providing lasting and or | | | | If I am proficient in my practice and you are |
| enduring safe, effective, affordable solutions in the | | | | proficient in yours, we should only love, respect, |
| services rendered to individual patients, clients and | | | | admire, understand and cooperate with each |
| to society. Then he or she becomes an asset of | | | | other for our talents and abilities. Then as |
| inestimable value to the immediate society of | | | | situations demand, cooperate and pull our |
| domicile and to the world he or she lives in. | | | | resources together to enhance the productive |
| The Core Qualities | | | | value of the profession, thus providing a |
| The performance, efficiency, effectiveness and | | | | broad-based, much larger operating platform and |
| worth of any Physician depends on the timely | | | | long-term mutually beneficial playing ground for us |
| acquisition of the relevant knowledge, from the | | | | and society; always remembering that the |
| right sources, which then greatly enhances his or | | | | patients are the main purpose of our calling. |
| her creativity and resourcefulness, culminating in | | | | We should always remember this: Our job is to |
| the materialization of his or her inherent potentials | | | | provide service that guarantees long-term positive |
| and ultimately the ability to provide the much | | | | health values and benefits to mankind through our |
| needed solutions to the patients. | | | | work. |
| This is so because there will be a vortex of | | | | What Is Your Contribution To The Impending |
| intellectual energy, an abundance of basic and | | | | Catastrophe? |
| advanced knowledge only waiting to be tapped on | | | | Right now, eradication of malaria should be our |
| from within. Therefore, the quality of service | | | | focus! It has become a global problem only |
| provided or skills applied are directly proportional | | | | because the situation has remained unchecked for |
| to the kind and or amount of requisite knowledge | | | | so long. In order to avoid a catastrophe of |
| that a physician has. Hence, pompous expressions, | | | | monumental proportions, what the world needs |
| grammatical verbosity intertwined with | | | | now very urgently is a massive outpouring of |
| professional arrogance plus the acquisition of | | | | human and material resources plus the expertise |
| fanciful state-of-the-art gadgets, do not make a | | | | of knowledgeable skillful minds and hands. What is |
| person a good physician unless backed by the | | | | your contribution to this effort? |
| true knowledge of the Art and Science of Healing. | | | | Time For Discipline, Restraint and Objectivity |
| And it should also be noted that the Art and | | | | Physicians should stop engaging themselves in |
| Science of Healing (which is dynamic in nature) is | | | | unproductive and or damaging verbal, physical or |
| quite different from the mere curing of diseases | | | | intellectual "warfare" against perceived |
| (which is mostly performed by rote). | | | | competitors or "opponents"; all arising mainly from |
| Creative Scientific Inventions As Practice Tools | | | | fear, envy, personal insecurity, masked |
| In fairness to the inventors and manufacturers of | | | | incompetence, pecuniary motives, arrogance, |
| these devices used in medical practice, I admire | | | | greed, possessiveness, self-righteousness, political |
| and greatly commend their efforts, because they | | | | and religious considerations or a combination of |
| are products of the ingenuity and creativity of | | | | these and more. |
| electronic, electrical, mechanical, computer and | | | | Discipline and conscious efforts should be made to |
| other engineers; designed solely as external | | | | always concentrate on providing the best service |
| (non-medical) resources to help or assist the | | | | and skills that we can possibly give by virtue of |
| physician or allied professional, in the investigation | | | | our training and knowledge. Mediocre performers |
| (or intervention) of difficult or unclear cases. | | | | and those who do not meet the required criteria |
| Whoever uses them must then be conversant | | | | and or standard expected of them by their |
| with this fact. | | | | patients will naturally phase themselves out of |
| The final decision therefore, rests with the | | | | practice due to non-patronage. The expectations |
| attending physician, who by virtue of his or her | | | | from Society are high and therefore call for |
| knowledgeable position has the responsibility of | | | | restraint, rationality and objectivity in our |
| interpreting correctly the results of tests or | | | | thoughts, words and deeds. |
| investigations made; and then provides the | | | | That does not require initiatory force, |
| appropriate solution to the problem if he or she | | | | harassment, coercion, intimidation or draconian |
| has prepared himself or herself well for it. | | | | laws or regulations directed at certain individuals, |
| "Modern" versus Natural and Holistic | | | | groups or system of medical practice. Sponsored |
| While most "modern" physicians or health care | | | | propaganda, distortion of facts and reality, and |
| practitioners focus on gross disease and disease | | | | outright blackmail against perceived successful |
| phenomena, in line with modern materialistic | | | | competitors, individuals or groups of different |
| methods, intelligent physicians who understand the | | | | branches of medical practice or so called |
| real nature of most diseases and their proximate | | | | "enemies" do not make one a Good Physician. |
| causes will fix attention on the persons with these | | | | Sooner or later, the facts will be exposed and the |
| diseases - the Natural and Holistic approach. In this | | | | truth known. |
| way, each case becomes an exciting and | | | | Standardized Ethics and Code of Conduct |
| rewarding adventure in Nature for both doctor | | | | Without prejudice to all that has been said, it must |
| and patient, as a lasting cure will be found for the | | | | be emphasized that standardized acceptable ethics |
| ailment. | | | | and code of conduct in health care practice, as in |
| A Curious Fact Of Life - Learning From An | | | | all other professions, is a sine-qua-non for |
| Uncommon Group | | | | effective and orderly practice. There should also |
| Here is a curious fact of life, which I have | | | | be a guarantee of individual freedom, protection |
| confirmed in the course of my practice. The | | | | and rights under the law as enshrined in each |
| genuinely, honest, truly wealthy people do not | | | | nation's constitution. |
| envy themselves or others. Rather, they exhibit | | | | The finer aspects of our personalities should |
| exceptional humility to love, respect, admire, | | | | however, be always manifest in our exemplary |
| understand and cooperate with each other for | | | | conduct, especially when dealing with issues that |
| the life-enhancing contributions made and positive | | | | have to do with the lives and health of the people |
| values that they have been able to create for | | | | we serve. Positive and rational discretion must be |
| themselves, for humanity and to society or the | | | | exercised in carrying out our duties. |
| world they live in. | | | | But to hide under the guise of officialdom in |
| Therefore, following exigencies of situations as | | | | enforcing "law and order", to perpetrate injustice, |
| they arise, they are quick to recognize the | | | | promote intimidation, oppression and apartheid |
| importance of pooling together their individual or | | | | against one's neighbour is reprehensible and totally |
| group resources to resolve a common problem. | | | | unacceptable in today's world. That is against the |
| This then informs their need to cooperate with | | | | norm of civilized conduct, which should be |
| each other and leads to the formation of | | | | condemned and where found to be in practice, |
| formidable alliances, unions and or mergers in | | | | stopped. As that type of attitude will only |
| order to consolidate, protect and expand their | | | | promote mutual distrust amongst health care |
| knowledge base, operational capabilities and | | | | practitioners and further prevent our brightest |
| productive platforms. | | | | and the best from ever revealing for the benefit |
| This move also ensures in the long term, that | | | | of all, what they know in combating the myriad of |
| they always have control over their situations, | | | | diseases that we have to deal with in today's |
| operational environment and consequently | | | | "modern" world. |
| increased yield in productive value exchanges; | | | | The Only Goal and Duty of A Good Physician |
| ultimately leading to improved monumental wealth | | | | Therefore, I submit that our only goal as |
| creation for them and to society. | | | | Physicians is to be Good; that is to be of positive |
| The Good Example To Emulate | | | | productive value by preventing healthy people |
| Physicians should emulate this attitude and do the | | | | from being sick and making sick people healthy - |
| same. There is absolutely no need to struggle and | | | | in other words, to heal by virtue of the |
| fight for supremacy in the medical field or engage | | | | knowledge and the resources at our disposal. |
| in unceasing intellectual prattle so as to appear | | | | That is our ONLY calling or duty. |
| learned. It seems those who engage in such | | | | Let us all who have chosen this noblest of |
| practices are unaware that there is more than | | | | professions be true Good Physicians! |
| enough playing ground for everyone. In the | | | | |