Fearfully and wonderfully made

"It's all in your head."

How many of you have heard that from your doctor?  For some people with certain health conditions, it's an all-too-commonly heard statement — not only from their doctors, but from family and friends, too.

I saw this in a little blip in the Reader's Digest, so I don't know where the original article went from there.  I would assume, based on my personal history and the name of the journal, that the conclusion is that these symptoms don't originate in physical disease, but are psychological in nature.

That is most likely non-sense.

As is the case with aspartame, the brainwashing doctors undergo in their studies leaves them basically unequipped to deal with the problems associated with things in our food and environment.  They can't make a connection, so they assume there is none.

Compounding the tragedy

To make matters worse, all too often, when a doctor can't find a physical cause for a patient's reported symptoms, he/she jumps immediately to the conclusion that the problem is all in the patient's head.

And your doctor has an easy out: Just give you medication.

So, not only is the basic cause of your problem left unaddressed, the problem is compounded by prescribed toxins that push you further away from health.

The need for a holistic approach to healthcare

Medical training promises to give the doctor the inside scoop on the intricacies of the human body.  But all too often, that promise is not fulfilled.  Instead of seeing the body as a balanced dance of trillions of inter-connected actions, doctors tend to see a symptom, and only a symptom.  The patient gets lost, as does any sense of how the body is supposed to work.

Psalm 139 says that we are fearfully and wonderfully made.  That's a fact lost to most doctors.

I think it's time that doctors learn a little humility, and accept the fact that their knowledge will always be limited.  No one will ever grasp all the complexities of the human frame.  Instead of exalting themselves as men and women of science — and in effect, dismissing all others as lesser beings — they need to sit and listen to the rhythms of life, to respect the intricate way that one aspect of the person plays off another, and work to restore balance, not push body systems off the chart trying to compensate for symptoms they don't understand.

Maybe then, that 37% could get real answers — or at least a sympathetic ear.